Description
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Are you a classroom teacher who wants a smooth, respectful partnership with your paraprofessional? Do you need simple systems to plan together, divide responsibilities, and stay aligned during instruction? Clear roles, shared expectations, and quick communication routines improve instructional flow and reduce student dependence, and co"‘planning for routines, transitions, and support helps both adults reinforce behavior and instructional goals consistently. In this course, Michelle Dragalin provides practical frameworks and a collaboration toolkit so both teacher and paraprofessional feel valued, coordinated, and focused on student independence. This is session two of of two for the series titled "Building Powerful Teacher—Paraprofessional Partnerships."
Objectives
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Identify key components of teacher and paraprofessional collaboration, including roles, responsibilities, and daily alignment tools. Explain how shared expectations and quick communication routines improve instructional flow and reduce student dependence. Implement a simple plan for co"‘planning weekly routines, transitions, and small group support. Examine your classroom schedule and divide responsibilities to match strengths while maintaining instructional continuity. Use a brief rubric to judge the effectiveness of collaboration practices on student engagement and independence. Design a classroom partnership framework with roles, communication touchpoints, and feedback routines that align to classroom goals.
