Teaching · Special Education

Hand over the task, keep hold of the plan.

List what each paraprofessional teaches or tracks. The organizer shows which tasks lack a plan, training, observation or data, and how much watching you have signed up for.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The task list

One list per class or caseload. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Tasks fully set up, the gaps for each one, tasks per paraprofessional and monthly observation minutes.
Who it is for
Special education teachers, case managers and coordinators who direct paraprofessionals’ work.
Format
Browser form. One saved list per class or caseload; printed for planning time or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
plan, hand over, get the data back
Drawn for this page. Delegating a task does not delegate the responsibility for it.

How to use it

  1. Add each task a paraprofessional carries out.
  2. Mark whether you wrote the plan and trained the para on it.
  3. Choose how often you watch it done and whether data come back.
  4. Fix the gaps, starting with new skills handed over too early.
  5. Update the list at each planning meeting.

List the tasks

Why the four checks

What the law expects

IDEA allows paraprofessionals who are appropriately trained and supervised to assist in providing special education and related services (34 CFR 300.156(b)). The teacher plans, supervises and uses the results.

Practice, not first teaching

Paraprofessionals do best with practice, review and data collection on skills the teacher has already taught. New skills need the teacher’s explicit instruction first.

What this is not

A personnel evaluation of the paraprofessional.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.156(b): paraprofessionals appropriately trained and supervised.
  2. Council for Exceptional Children (2015). What Every Special Educator Must Know: Ethics, Standards and Guidelines; paraeducator preparation guidelines.
  3. Giangreco, M. F. (2013). Teacher assistant supports in inclusive schools: Research, practices and alternatives. Australasian Journal of Special Education, 37(2), 93–106.
  4. Brock, M. E., & Carter, E. W. (2017). A meta-analysis of educator training to improve implementation of interventions for students with disabilities. Remedial and Special Education, 38(3), 131–144.

The example tasks and codes are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.