Paraprofessional Training Binder

Want to train your paraprofessionals but not sure where to start? BEGIN HERE! Most paraprofessional binders or paraprofessional manuals I see just cover logistics and classroom norms but this paraprofessional training binder goes deeper and provides a crash course in HOW to actually best support students with disabilities! This is literally an entire year of paraprofessional training, all done for you and ready to go! It covers 36 academic, behavioral and communication strategies all in an easy to read and understand format (enough to cover one strategy a week for the entire year)! It's like SPED 101- and all you have to do is print the manual out and give it to your team of paras! This paraprofessional binder even contains weekly questions if you want to lead team meetings about each strategy. This para binder and training has been so helpful in my classroom, and according to the reviews many of yours as well! It's my best selling resource for a reason and para training is SO important in classrooms! Check out the preview to see 3 sample pages.

This complete year of paraprofessional training provides 36 one page documents you can use to train paraprofessionals, general education teachers, related arts staff, school admin or use as a refresher for yourself! Each page in the binder details a different strategy you can use to be successful when working with students with disabilities. So that is 36 strategies you will be training staff on, or a full YEAR of strategies.

Each training page in the binder includes the definition of the strategy, a big picture explanation of why it works, teacher scripts, examples and special considerations! Also included is a generic note taking page for paraprofessionals or yourself to fill out to think more deeply about the strategy and HOW it will be used in your classroom, specifically!

Strategies included are:

BEHAVIORAL

-behavioral momentum

-behavior specific praise

-planned ignoring

-first then board

-visual cue cards

-explicit behavioral expectations

-offer increased choices

-functions of behavior

-behavior intervention plan

-check in check out

-visual schedule

-token economy

-calm down breaks

-functional communication training

-social stories

-self monitoring

INSTRUCTIONAL

-discrete trail training

-time delay

-independent work

-prompt hierarchy

-gestural prompts

-verbal prompts

-visual prompts

-modeling prompts

-partial physical prompt

-full physical prompt

-access to core curriculum

-data tracking

-multi-sensory and kinesthetic learning

-wait time

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

-AAC devices

-modeling language

-respond and reinforce

-expand utterances

-presume competence

-types of language (expressive vs receptive)

LICENSING: Because this resource is a training binder, I expect you to share it with the people you supervise or directly work with! I give full permission for you, as a classroom teacher, to share with adults that directly support the students on YOUR caseload! This license should be limited to provide enough manuals to support the adults that directly work with students on a single teachers caseload (the corresponding gen ed teachers, paras, etc) . If multiple sped teachers will be using this to train more staff members, please purchase an additional license. I know many times paras are shared across teachers and settings, and so the language here gets a bit ambiguous. I am ask that you respect the intent of a "single caseload" license and trust you will honor these terms. If ONE teacher is providing the training to paras that spend significant amounts of time in her room, you would need one license. If ALL of the sped teachers get together and provide training to the 15+ paras in the building at one time, I would ask that each sped teacher purchases their own license.

Additional licenses are set at a super discounted rate ($15 each) and if you are purchasing in bulk for a district or larger program (more than 3 people!) email me and we can discuss a deal. My email is kelsey@exceptionalelementary.com