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- Title
Empowering Paraprofessionals through Professional Development.
- Authors
McKenzie, Barbara
- Abstract
Paraprofessionals in special education settings serve an important role in the education of students with disabilities, hut they very often do not receive the same level of professional development given to other service providers. Ongoing professional development is a critical component in retaining paraprofessionals. An urban school district in Colorado implemented a paraprofessional development program that produced three significant outcomes. First, retention of special education paraprofessionals increased. Second, several special education paraprofessionals chose to enter a teacher education program to secure their teaching license in special education. Third, collaboration among IEP team members increased. Professional development topics included Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act 2004, individual learner characteristics, instructional strategies, behavior management, Response to Intervention, and case law.
- Subjects
CAREER development; SPECIAL education; STUDENTS with disabilities; PARAPROFESSIONALS; TEACHING; TEACHER training
- Publication
Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 2011, Vol 77, Issue 4, p38
- ISSN
0011-8044
- Publication type
Article