Teaching · Special Education

Every support needs one owner.

Assign the nine everyday support tasks to the adults around one student. The checklist shows the load on each person, the gaps, and the tasks that belong with a teacher.

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The responsibility checklist

One plan per student and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Tasks listed by owner, tasks with no owner, a next review date and the assignments to fix before the plan starts.
Who it is for
Case managers and special education teachers setting up a student’s supports with general education teachers, paraprofessionals and related service providers.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved plan per student and date; printed for the team or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 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.
one owner for every support
Drawn for this page. Supports slip when two adults each assume the other has them.

How to use it

  1. Mark the setting and the adults who work with the student.
  2. Give each task one owner.
  3. Fix what the summary flags: gaps, shared tasks without a lead, planning given to a paraprofessional.
  4. Share the printout so each adult has seen their part.
  5. Review on the interval you set, and copy the plan to the new date.

Assign the supports

How the checklist reads the plan

Paraprofessionals

Paraprofessionals provide a great deal of support, and federal law expects them to be trained and supervised for it (IDEA, 34 CFR 300.156(b)). Under ESSA, a paraprofessional in a Title I program works under the direct supervision of a teacher. Deciding what to teach and whether it is working stays with the teacher and the IEP team.

Shared tasks

Shared is fine for data taken in two places. Name one person who pulls it together, or it belongs to no one.

What this is not

A job description or a staffing plan. Your district sets paraprofessional duties.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.156(b): paraprofessionals appropriately trained and supervised; 34 CFR 300.323(d): each teacher and provider informed of their responsibilities.
  2. Every Student Succeeds Act, 20 U.S.C. 6311(g)(2)(M) and 34 CFR 200.59: Title I paraprofessionals work under the direct supervision of a teacher.
  3. Giangreco, M. F., & Doyle, M. B. (2007). Teacher assistants in inclusive schools. In L. Florian (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Special Education (pp. 429–439). Sage.
  4. IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University, Paraprofessionals: Roles and responsibilities (module).

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