Paraprofessionals and Teachers Work Together as a Team for the Benefit of Students

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

Why I Love My Job as a Paraeducator

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…

Two Paraeducators Begin Their New Jobs

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”.

Call for Papers and Conference Registration Now Available

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

State by State Paraprofessional Resources

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

State Paraprofessional Resources Pre-Release

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