In this brief presentation, a special education teacher explains the difficulty of training classroom paraprofessionals and introduces two comprehensive paraprofessional training guides she created. The guides provide step‑by‑step instruction, handouts, and quizzes designed to give teachers concrete tools for preparing paraprofessionals to support students effectively. The speaker emphasizes that the guides enable meaningful, capacity‑building training for the whole team.
As a special education teacher, one of the hardest parts of the job is training your team. If you have paraprofessionals in your classroom, you are their leader. But where do you even start? That's why I created my two paraprofessional training guides. These guides walk you through everything that your paraprofessionals should know. There's handouts, there's quizzes. It's going to give you the tools to train your team in a way that is meaningful and will allow them to help you in the fullest capacity.
