#Checklist for my paraprofessional full

Do this with each station your aides are running. Then watch them run the station and fade yourself out. For the first few days, have them watch you run the station.

#Checklist for my paraprofessional full

Spend one full week with the aide at their station during the designated time. You need to spend the time training them! Put some iPads, puzzles, or coloring sheets at whatever station or center you are supposed to be. So this is all great but how do you set this up or get it rolling? You can’t just plop a bunch of flashcards and data sheets on a table and expect your paraprofessional to run the station exactly to your predetermined expectations. My paraprofessionals run a fluency station, spelling instruction, monitor my independent work station, and help run academic groups! These are great ways to individualize education and make your day even more efficient. They will likely be at a station or center working in small groups with students.

Successful classrooms utilize paraprofessionals as part of the teaching team. Spend a Week with Each Paraprofessional at their Station.You have got to put in the time and do the training. You cannot expect them to know exactly how you would like each center or station run. You cannot expect them to keep up with the ever changing schedule and behavior plan changes. You cannot expect your classroom aides to read your mind. Forgetting this step in the back to school process will be detrimental to the rest of your school year. We are so worried about managing our students that we forget that we have to manage our staff as well. The thing we don’t think about is training our classroom assistants. In the start of the school year we are worried about just making it through the day alive and not losing a child. We are worrying about setting up our classrooms, getting data systems rolling, implementing behavior systems, and putting up our keeping-up-with-jones bulletin boards.

For some reason one of the most important and impactful components of our classrooms gets quickly pushed to the very, very bottom of out every growing to do list.