Paraprofessional Handbook (PDF)

**Updated 2020**

This paraprofessional training handbook (PDF) is for teachers, administrators and paraprofessionals to use as a guidebook through navigating the multitude of responsibility paras have on a daily basis.

It includes over 200 hundred fun and colorful resources, questionnaires, strategies and tools to use to improve their practice and impact students for the better.

Sections Include:

• Business (Program brainstorm, smart goal setting, surveys)
• Roles & Responsibilities (Presuming competence, People first Language, professionalism, confidentiality)
• Policies & Procedures** (Communication, Additional Training, Personal Time & Substitutes, Cell phones, Reminders)
• Bootcamp** (School-wide expectations and programming, inclusion)
• Disability Information (based on Colorado categories and eligibility)
• Schedules (Visual schedules)
• Building Relationships (Motivation, Motivation assessment, Instructional Control, Token Economies)
• Instructional Strategies (Small groups, Learning Environments, Effective Teaching, Discrete Trial Procedures, Errorless learning, Levels of Prompting, Fluency Training, Generalization, Incidental Teaching, Strategies, Academic Data, What to do when students don't get it).
• Supports (Independence, Types of Support, Accommodations, Modifications, Inclusion, Supports outside of the classroom, Prompting, Prompt Fading)
• Communication (Students who are nonverbal, AAC, Expressive/Receptive, Communication Survey, Communication and Collaborative Partnerships)
• Behavior (ABA, FBA, Target Behaviors, Behavior Management, Sensory Behaviors, A-B-C Data, Data Collection, Behavior Interventions, Reinforcement, Aggression, Planned Ignoring, Crisis Management)
• Social Pro Program** (Specific to our school and our token economy - feel free to adapt to fit your own processes).
• Crisis** (CPI Summary, Timeouts & Holds, Seclusion, Restraint, Quiz)
• *References

**Sections contain information specific to school/district policy and procedure. Purchasers may need to supplement with their own information and documentation. However, all pages were left in to use as a springboard for your own ideas.

It's a compilation of the resources I have put together over 12 years of teaching to train my paraprofessionals throughout the school year.

(Please note this is a PDF file and is not editable at this time. Purchasers may want to supplement with their own district/school-specific information and documents.)