Beginning Your Career In Education: Paraeducator Standards for Practice

This course, designed for the high school student, serves as the first step towards a career path in education and an introduction into the Paraeducator Standards for Practice through the Core Competencies from the Council for Exceptional Children.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome Message
2. How to Use this Course
3. Where You're Headed
4. Your eLearning Portfolio
1. Chapter Objectives
2. What is Special Education?
3. Article: What is Special Education?
4. Timeline of Special Education
5. Understanding the Language
6. IEP 101: Introduction to the Individualized Education Program
7. The Anatomy of an IEP
8. Sample IEP
9. Chapter 1 ✅ for Understanding
10. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Presuming Competence in All Students
3. Categories of Disabilities
4. Areas of Impact
5. Educational Challenges
6. Impact on the Family and Family Life
7. Chapter 2 ✅ for Understanding
8. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Rights and Responsibilities of Families and Children
3. Sensitivity to the Diversity of Individuals and Families
4. Creating a Safe and Engaging Learning Environment
5. Indicators of Abuse and Neglect
6. Mandated Reporter - Test your Knowledge
7. Learning for Justice Resource
8. Chapter 3 ✅ for Understanding
9. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Reflection on Instruction for Students with Exceptionalities
3. Designing Instruction: Accommodations vs. Modifications
4. Test Your Knowledge
5. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
6. UDL Article & Activity
7. Common Technologies Used With Students with Exceptionalities
8. Assistive Technology Reflection
9. Team Approach to Educating Students
10. Universal Precautions
11. Chapter 4 ✅ For Understanding
12. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Supports in Various Learning Environments
3. The Basics of Behavior
4. Understanding and Changing Challenging Behavior
5. Proactive vs. Reactive Behavioral Management
6. Safety Habits for Staff
7. Scenarios: Test Your Safety Habits Knowledge
8. Behavior Reflection
9. Chapter 5 ✅ for Understanding
10. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Communication as the Special Education Team
3. Communication and Positive Interaction Scenarios
4. Disability Etiquette Video Reflection
5. Part I: Language to Communicate With Individuals with Exceptionalities
6. Part II: Language to Communicate With Individuals with Exceptionalities
7. Rephrasing Your Language
8. Chapter 6 Reflection
9. Chapter 6 ✅ for Understanding
10. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Instructional Planning for Individuals With Exceptionalities
3. Evidence-Based Practices
4. Specially Designed Instruction
5. Sample IEP: Specially Designed Instruction
6. Implementing Instruction
7. Communicating Student Progress
8. Increasing Student Independence
9. Prompt Hierarchy Interactive
10. Material Preparation and Organization
11. Chapter 7 ✅ for Understanding
12. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Rationale of Assessment
3. Types of Assessments
4. Formative and Summative Assessments
5. Collecting Accurate Data
6. Assessment Accommodations and Modifications
7. Accommodation vs. Modification
8. Chapter 8 ✅ for Understanding
9. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Ethics Reflection
3. What is Ethics?
4. CEC Code of Ethics
5. The Importance of Confidentiality
6. Paraeducator Effectiveness: Conflict Style
7. Paraeducator Effectiveness: Understanding Bias
8. Encountering Emotional Situations
9. Confidentiality/Ethics Scenarios
10. Tips for Managing Professional Obligations as a Paraeducator
11. Chapter 9 ✅ for Understanding
12. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Chapter Objectives
2. Roles of Members of the Educational Team
3. Education Team Example
4. Education Team Example Reflection
5. Characteristics of an Effective Team
6. Team Assessment
7. Educational Team Reflection
8. Concerns of Families and Caregivers
9. Guiding Questions for Educational Teams
10. Chapter 10 ✅ for Understanding
11. ePortfolio - Share with your Advisor
1. Key Takeaways
2. Course Evaluation

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Beginning Your Career In Education: Paraeducator Standards for Practice

Course curriculum

Welcome to Your Course

1️⃣ Foundations of Special Education

2️⃣ Development and Characteristics of Learners

3️⃣ Individual Learning Differences

4️⃣ Instructional Strategies

5️⃣ Learning Environments and Social Interactions

6️⃣ Language

7️⃣ Instructional Planning

8️⃣ Assessment

9️⃣ Professional and Ethical Practice

🔟 Collaboration

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