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Danielle Delaney has taken the time to post a 7 minute video on Youtube about some of the work that she does as a paraprofessional:

Sue Watson, from the About.com Special Education page has created a list of 10 questions to ask yourself before you decide to pursue a career as a special educator. Looking over the list, I think it applies equally to paraeducators. Here is one of the question she asks:

3. Do you have endless patience?
I spent many months working with a child with Cerebral Palsy with the main goal being achieving a yes/no response. After months of working on this, it was achieved and she would raise her hand for yes and shake her head for no. These kinds of things are often just taken for granted, this was a very big learning leap for this child and made the world of difference. It took endless patience.

Visit Should I Become a Special Education Teacher?

Just in time for Christmas we would like a number of items available for purchase for your favorite paraeducator. To start off there are just a couple of logos, but we will be adding more in the future.

Visit the NRCP Paraeducator Store

From the store, there are a number of products available with the following designs:

This new blog section to our site will include updates to the National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals website as well as other paraprofessional news. You can view past comments by category or date (menu to the right). Also, feel free to leave a comment on any of the posts!