This training video and companion workbook provide the perfect combination for helping paraprofessionals understand their vital role in the classroom — enhancing instructional support for educators and academic achievement for students. Your paraprofessionals receive field-tested concepts and expert guidance to help them: work with teachers and other staff to support instruction and reinforce student learning and problem solving; understand the developmental building blocks for learning and the components of effective instructional approaches; support a lesson plan and work with teachers as a team; and much more. The reproducible, user-friendly workbook includes additional instructional strategies and group activities that review the video's key points — along with tools to maintain rapport with students and implement teacher-developed data collection procedures. The Workbook may be reproduced only for use within the purchasing organization. All other rights reserved.

(2003. Video and workbook. Video: 25 min. Workbook: 41 pp.)

This video and workbook set is the perfect way to educate your paraprofessionals on the key special education principles, provisions and services under the new IDEA - and enhance instruction for your Title I students and students with disabilities.

The training video examines the basis for special education law including disabilities categories and procedures as they apply to the role of the paraprofessional - including suggested approaches to effective collaboration and support in specialized instruction.

What's more, the accompanying workbook provides reflection exercises and activities to reinforce the video's key concepts, such as:

• Types and definitions of disabilities
• Guiding concepts to use when working with students with disabilities
• Explanations of related special education services, support and personnel
• And more

(2005. Video: 22 min. Workbook: 36 pp.)