Teaching · Special Education

Supervise in short, regular, written-down contacts.

Log what you saw, the one thing to change and when you will look again. The log keeps training hours and flags any task that belongs with a teacher.

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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 supervision log

One entry per contact; copy the last one to a new date to start the next. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A dated record of each contact, the change to look for, training hours and any task to take back.
Who it is for
Special education teachers who direct paraprofessionals, and the coordinators and administrators who assign them.
Format
Browser log. One saved entry per contact; printed or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$19 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.
the teacher plans, the para delivers,and someone writes it down
Drawn for this page. Good supervision is short and frequent: watch a few minutes, name one change, and come back to see it.

How to use it

  1. Start an entry with the paraprofessional’s initials or a staff code.
  2. Watch for a few minutes during a planned task.
  3. Name what went well and one thing to change.
  4. Set the follow-up date before you leave.
  5. Copy the entry to the follow-up date and look for that change.

Log a contact

What supervision covers

Under a teacher’s direction

IDEA allows paraprofessionals who are appropriately trained and supervised, under state law, regulation or written policy, to assist in providing special education and related services (34 CFR 300.156(b)(2)(iii)). Planning, introducing new content and evaluating students stay with the teacher.

Short and frequent

A few minutes of watching with one specific change, followed up within two weeks, does more than a long annual review. Write the change in words the paraprofessional would use.

What it is not

A supervision record, not a performance evaluation. Your district’s evaluation process and your state’s paraprofessional rules apply on their own terms.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.156: personnel qualifications, including paraprofessionals and assistants.
  2. Every Student Succeeds Act, section 1111(g)(2)(M): paraprofessional qualifications in Title I programs.
  3. Council for Exceptional Children. Special Education Paraeducator Guidelines (2022).
  4. IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University (funded by the U.S. Department of Education): resources on working with paraprofessionals.

The example entry is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.