Do you employ a small army of paraprofessionals? If so, our Parapro Training Program has you flanked!
Can you imagine a world wherein schools place the least experienced, least trained employees to work with the most vulnerable and some cases most difficult students? (Oh wait! That’s not our imagination! That’s the real world!) Stop the madness and use this training to appropriately onboard your paraprofessional workforce.
At the end of the course (7 modules in total), attendees will:
Designed for educators, by Educators.
In this module, we take the time to orient paraprofessionals to the big picture. We’re not going to micromanage their time nor are we going to tell their supervisors how to do their jobs. We are going to simply share the explicit steps involved in helping kids feel a sense of belonging and how to help kids find success in the school setting.
As noted above, we’re focusing on the basics. The bare basics of how to deliver praise is an essential component to any paraprofessionals assignment. We break praise down into two parts: “Just Because Praise” and “Strategic Praise.”
This and much more awaits you.
Ben Springer is an award-winning and nationally certified school psychologist. Ben received his Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Educational Psychology at the University of Utah. Ben studied psychological assessment, counseling, school-wide positive behavior supports, bullying prevention programs, parental involvement, evidence-based practice, autism, and social skills instruction. Ben works as the director of special education in a public school in Utah.
