Paraprofessional educator

years, I have gained hands on knowledge that has increased my pedagogical knowledge as an Early Childhood/Special Educator. I understand that attending college in the profession of education does not prepare you for every teaching experience that you will encounter, but it will guide in the right direction to handle or learn how to handle different teaching situation. As an educator, I have learned that collaboration between the school and home is very essential to building the learning ability…

disability, orthopedic disability, and severe profound disability. The self-contained classroom consisted of a paraprofessional, a child specific, and a teacher who worked as a team to ensure every student is getting individual attention. In the course” Teaching Students with Intellectual Disability” chapter four, emphasize on partnering with educators. I believe in order to be successful educator one must come to agreement to work for the better good of the…

online at ed.gov. There are almost 55 million children enrolled in either public or private schools throughout the country(2015). This is a staggering amount of children that teachers come in contact with on a daily basis. Teachers are not just just educators who show up to teach children, but also people who show love, compassion, and honesty to students, parents,…

For this assignment I chose to interview a private duty nurse who only has one patient. Throughout this paper, for the sake of confidentiality I will be referring to the private duty nurse that I interviewed as Danielle, and her patient as Racquel. Danielle is the primary care provider for Racquel who is a critically ill child with special needs. Raquel is a 10 year old girl who was born with spinal bifida and attends school part-time. Some of Danielle's job duties consist of taking care of and…

Collaboration is the key to success for an educator, whether is it between teachers, between teachers and parents, or between a combination of all three. Collaboration is more than just working together. According to Interactions Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (2013), there are three defining characteristics and three emerging characteristics of collaboration (Friend & Cook, 2013, pg. 7-11). The first of the three defining characteristics of collaboration is “collaboration is…

Kim has chosen the profession that she truly wanted to do. She is a Paraprofessional who works with younger kids from kindergarten to third grade including the special needs children. She loves working with her students because she like seeing the impact that she has on each one. Kim explained, “I knew I liked working with kids. I got to help work in an elementary school and at that point she realized how much more help the special needs kids needed” (Arena). She continued working in a classroom…

goals to be implemented in the home setting, not just at school, especially the goals related to occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy. Educators play a large role in supporting children with disabilities. Ken specified that the most effective thing an educator can do to support his son is to listen. He said that educators need to listen to the parents and implement strategies and processes that the parents desire for their child. Most parents know the needs and wants of…

Security, and other disability entitlement programs. In-house specialized programming for students with less severe disabilities compounded the placement costs for the most disabled students. The required expenses for special education teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, psychologists, speech and language pathologists, behavior intervention specialists, occupational therapists, transportation, and other programming ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars each fiscal year. The sum…

In the United States, bullying in the school systems has become a major concern of parents, educators, and legislators. One out of four kids attending school is bullied on a regular basis. Additionally, bullying can take place randomly, daily, or weekly in locker rooms, buses, hallways, cafeterias, and restrooms. A study on health and behavior of school age children revealed that thirty percent of children in grades ranging from the sixth through the tenth grade reported bullying other…

Children learn and develop best when they are part of a community of learners this means a community in which all participants care about each other and learning is constructed in a collaborative process. Learning communities allow children to learn not just academically, but to learn about culture, diversity, inclusion, language, resolution to conflict, self-regulation and help foster their own identity in relation to the community. To develop a learning community the teacher should create an…