I found a blog tonight titled Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs by Kate who writes about “resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.” The site is worth bookmarking for the tremendous collection of links and resources running down the left hand side of the page.
Pat Hensley has 26 years of teaching experience and takes a moment to share some of the things that she has done to create a positive working relationship with the paraprofessionals in her classroom. She goes over many practical tips on how to work together as a team. She explains her feelings towards the role … Read more
The Freetown Elementary School has received a grant for $42,343 to fund paraprofessional positions. From the article: “The paraprofessionals are a great help. You don’t know what you are missing until you take them away,” said Principal Robert Frizelle. Freetown Elementary awarded grant
Elona Hartjes has written a wonderful post about the importance of paraeducators in her classroom titled, Paraprofessionals and Teachers Work Together as a Team for the Benefit of Students. From her opening paragraph: I’ve been really fortunate to have worked with some wonderful paraprofessionals at different times in my teaching career. These men and women … Read more
The Pittsburgh Morning Sun recently held a ‘Why I Love My Job’ contest and a paraeducator was one of the entries:
My name is Luci Sullivan. I am an Occupational and Physical Therapy Paraeducator for children with special needs.
I love my job and think my job is the best job in town.
I am fortunate to work with children and a great team of professionals, administrators, teachers, and paraeducators whose mission is that each child reaches their maximum independence and achieve satisfying and fulfilling lifestyles…
First, from the madmommy blog, a mother returning to work as a paraeducator:
And where, might you ask, am I working? I’m going back to a job I had before the munchkin was born; paraeducator for special ed kids. This time I’ll be working in a high school environment. I’m a little nervous, as it’s been two years, and back then I worked with younger kids, but I enjoy the job. We had our orientation today and I must say I feel very psyched to go “back to school”.
The Call for Papers for the 2008 Conference is now available. The theme for this year’s conference is: United We Educate, PATHS to the Future– Paraprofessional, Administrator, Teacher, Higher Education, & Other Stakeholders Conference registration is also now available. If you are interested in presenting at this year’s conference, we look forward to receiving your … Read more
We are excited to officially announce a project that we have been working on for many months- a collection of online paraprofessional resources from each of the 50 US States. Stop by to see what paraprofessional resources are available from your state and let us know if we are missing anything. We are working to … Read more
The title of this short article and accompanying video is Autistic 10-year-old writes a series of books. The article mentions:
Four months ago, Nick asked a para-educator for help on writing a book about dinosaurs.
In anticipation of a big front page announcement next week, we would like to announce a new resource to all of our blog readers. We have been working on this for awhile and some of you received a sneak peek at the conference. It is finally ready for some visitors (and your feedback). Without further … Read more