Roles & Responsibilities
A school employee who works under the supervision of teachers or other licensed personnel.
Who is a paraeducator
Planning ahead to avoid problems.
What is proactive
Helping to establish a calm, safe emotional state.
What is regulate
A process consisting of 6 basic steps including general education intervention, suspicion of disability, consent for evaluation, evaluation, eligibility decision meeting, and IEP meeting (if found eligible).
What is the evaluation process
An instructional model where you provide modeling, guided support, and then ask the student to complete it independently.
Need to know vs. Desire to Tell
What is confidentiality
Automatic responses to perceived danger; includes fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
What is survival response
Building relationships, letting the child know they are being heard and their feelings matter.
What is relate
Details the specific components that must be included in general education interventions.
What is Iowa Code
An effective strategy for studying or memorizing information.
What is Read, Cover, Recite, Check or RCRC
Contains a copy of your daily schedule, ways to support specific students, duties, and emergency plans.
What are sub plans
A ________ brain cannot regulate another ______ brain.
What is dysregulated
Determine what was going on, what the triggers were, and what coping strategies can be tried next time.
What is reason
To be found eligible, a student must be found to have a disability identified within these categories.
What are the 13 disability categories
An effective procedure for reading with comprehension involves asking students questions ______.
What is after they read each page.
The individual who has the ultimate responsibility for the instruction and management of the class.
Who is the teacher
The area of our brain that allows us to think before we act, make decisions, utilize self-awareness, and have control over our emotions and body.
What is the Learning brain (or upstairs brain)
A regulation strategy that draws attention to all 5 senses and allows students to take a mental break.
What is grounding
Part of the RIOT process used during an evaluation that involves analyzing the setting in which instruction and/or a behavior occurs.
What is observe
An effective strategy to utilize when asking students to read passages above their independent reading level that involves reading aloud while they read aloud.
What is coral reading
Describes acceptable practices and specific responsibilities, as well as outlines the relationships that must be maintained with students, parents, teachers, school and community.
What is the Code of Ethics
Is expected to support the behavior management plan of the teacher, implement supports as directed by the teacher, and carry our specific supports when included/directed by a behavior intervention plan.
Who is a paraeducator
Indicators that a student is _______ include: slowed breathing, relaxed body language, and decreased heart rate.
Factors required to find a student eligible for special education services.
What are disability and need
Greeting students by name, showing respect, giving compliments, and providing individual praise to students are all _______ strategies.
What are relationship building strategies