Framework+for+the+Role+of+the+Instructional+Assistant

Anna would like to do a Framework for the Role of Paraprofessionals/Instructional Assistants. A team will probably be put together to work on it this summer and hopefully have it ready for Fall. Please keep in mind when providing input for the Framework that neither the Paraprofessional or Instructional Assistant do planning. They do what you specify and are not clericals. Make sure that assistants are being used to assist the children not as an assistant for the teacher or specials teachers. We will also need to work on a mission statement for the paraprofessionals/Instructional Assistants.

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 * __Some ideas:__**

5/14/10 - posted by Debbie Clark taken from the handout at the Kindergarten Team Meetings
 * Know the importance of confidentiality and respect students and their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. They care for the well-being of students and believe that all students can learn.
 * Work with students in a variety of instructional groups options selected by a classroom teacher or reading specialist.
 * Work with students in a wide range of instructional practices, including technology-based practices that promote reading and/or writing across the curriculum as planned by a classroom teacher or reading specialist.
 * Work with students with a wide range of curriculum materials as specified by classroom teachers and reading specialists within a given program. Use appropriate materials to meet the needs of students from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds as planned by the classroom teacher and/or reading specialist. Instruction will vary according to the students' various stage of reading and writing development.
 * use the appropriate practices, including technology-based practices to meet the needs of students from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds as planned by the classroom teacher and/or reading specialist. Instruction will vary according to the students' various stage of reading or writing development.
 * Read aloud enthusiastically and fluently when reading to students.
 * Support student's choice of reading materials.