Description
Book SynopsisWhat does a great paraprofessional need to know and do? You'll find real-world answers from two experts in the second edition of this bestselling guidebook. Passionate inclusion advocates Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod bring you a supremely practical guide to surviving and thriving as an integral part of your school's inclusive team. You'll get immediately applicable strategies for mastering every facet of your complex role: collaborating with other team members, selecting accommodations and modifications, facilitating peer connections, fading your support, and much more. And you'll find a treasure trove of tools-including activities, learning checks, reproducible templates, FAQs, and short to-do lists-to help you reflect on your practice and strengthen your daily work.
An essential hands-on guide for new and seasoned paraprofessionals-and a must-have for the educators and other professionals who support them-this empowering book takes the guesswork out of this critical classroom role so you can help students with disabilities reach their full potential.
WHAT'S NEW:
- New chapter on Respectful Support for Developing Student Independence
- More on key topics such as collaboration, presuming competence, and supporting social and academic success for students with diverse abilities
- New and updated research, practices, digital tools, resources, examples, quiz questions, and reflection activities throughout the book
- Package of online materials, including printable activities, forms, and worksheets
Table of Contents
- About the Forms and Online Materials
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: The Paraprofessional
- Chapter 2: Inclusive Education
- Chapter 3: Special Education
- Chapter 4: Collaborating with Others
- Chapter 5: Rethinking Your Students: Presuming Competence
- Chapter 6: Providing Academic Supports
- Chapter 7: Providing Social Supports
- Chapter 8: Providing Behavioral Support
- Chapter 9: Respectful Support for Developing Student Independence
- Chapter 10: Supporting Yourself
- References
- Index
