Inclusive Insight: Teamwork-Building Q’s for Paraprofessionals

Paraprofessionals play a crucial part in the success of inclusive classrooms. They have a complex job with many different facets: helping teachers plan instruction, supporting positive behavior, maintaining strong communication with the rest of the educational team, and much more. It can be tough to figure out who’s in charge of what, especially in a new paraprofessional-educator partnership, so today we’re giving you a helpful resource for your teamwork-building toolkit.

This resource gives paraprofessionals 38 questions they can use to guide their dialogue with general and special educators as they work together to create a successful partnership. Covering everything from work styles and teaching philosophy to behavior expectations and instruction strategies, these questions are a great starting point for new teaching teams (and a good list for established teams to review, to make sure they’re on the same page).

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