A Teacher's Guide to Working with Paraeducators and Other Classroom Aides

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About

Paraeducators—also known as teacher aides, teaching assistants, and instruction assistants—are playing an increasingly important role in schools. Most teachers, however, have never been trained to work effectively with other adults in their classrooms. In A Teacher's Guide to Working with Paraeducators and Other Classroom Aides, Jill Morgan and Betty Y. Ashbaker provide straightforward advice and focused activities that can help forge productive working relationships between teachers and paraeducators. The authors cover key topics related to working with and supervising paraeducators, including how to assign responsibilities, communicate, monitor quality of work, provide on-the-job training, and create a feedback loop. Tips from practicing teachers explain ways to find the time to effectively supervise paraeducators. The authors discuss how the supervisory techniques involved in working with paraeducators are similar to—and different from—those that teachers use with students.

Introduction

Leading the Classroom Instructional Team

Assigning Roles and Responsibilities

Improving Communications

Monitoring the Quality of Your Paraeducator's Work

Providing On-the-Job Training

About the authors

Jill Morgan is a research and training specialist in the Interdisciplinary Training Division at the Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University, in Logan, Utah. Betty Y. Ashbaker is an assistant professor in Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Morgan and Ashbaker coauthored The Effective Educator: A Training Program for Paraeducators; The Pro-Active Paraeducator: More Than 200 Really Nifty Ideas for People Who Help Teachers; and Teamwork and Self-Evaluation for Teachers and Paraeducators, a training manual to help classroom teams develop their instructional skills and work together more effectively.