PREPARING PARAPROFESSIONALS FOR SUCCESS

Equipping Instructional Assistants/Paraprofessionals for Success

Paraprofessionals play an integral role in supporting students with disabilities across all settings. In this workshop, paraprofessionals will gain effective strategies and tools to collect data, meaningfully collaborate with teachers, and support students academic and behavioral performance. This session is packed with evidenced based strategies and practical methods for monitoring and increasing student independence in inclusive settings and special education classrooms. You will also learn powerful approaches for using positive discipline strategies to manage behaviors that impede learning and ways to use effective prompting to enhance student learning. The comprehensive strategies described in this workshop will provide paraprofessionals and special education teachers with dozens of useful, practical, proven techniques for increasing paraprofessional effectiveness in facilitating student achievement and increasing independence.