Students First
What is the number one priority of your job?
The student in front of you.
What is one thing great paraprofessionals do?
Work as a team
collaborate
communicate
All behavior is a form of what?
Communication
What law protects student privacy?
FERPA
The independent student-
A student is working independently at their desk. You check your phone for a few minutes b/c the student doesn't seem to need anything.
Discuss the concern. What opportunities might be missed? What should you be doing instead?
What expectations from today's training apply?
Concern: you are on the phone!
Missed: signals, what the teacher presented, opportunities for praise.
Instead: interacting with student, praising, looking for signals
Expectation: Be ENGAGED!
Being physically present is not enough. What else must you be?
Engaged with the student.
What should you do with feedback?
Accept it and use it to keep learning.
What does A-B-C stand for?
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence
Any information should be shared on what basis?
NEED to know.
A teacher asks you to support a different student while your assigned student is participating independently during a group activity.
Your response: "That's my not student."
Describe a professional response.
Be flexible, work as a team.
Have the discussion at a later time.
What legal documents guide your daily instruction/support?
IEP and PBSP
What should you model during a stressful situation?
emotional regulation
calm
Why is it important to fade prompts?
No, maintain boundaries.
A student rips up a worksheet and is refusing to do the work.
What could the student be trying to communicate?
Which strategy could you apply in this situation?
Doesn't want to do it now.
Wait, offer choices, modify work. "Tools in your toolbox"
How might you get buy in from your students?
forming connections
building relationships
being their cheerleader
What is the reporting responsibility of all staff?
Mandated reporting.
Why should we identify the function of behavior?
It tells us the why, so can teach a more acceptable replacement skill.
What to do if you are unsure about reporting something?
When in doubt, report it!
A teacher tells you: "I'd like you to give the student less wait time. Prompt him right away."
You disagree and think he needs time to process.
How could you respond?
Provide your point of view professionally.
State situations when he was successful with wait time.