Paraprofessional Symposium
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Date: July 24, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Location: Region 7 ESC Workshop: #272068
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2024 Paraprofessional Symposium: Ongoing Professional Learning
Instructional paraprofessionals are invaluable to schools across Texas. This symposium will empower paraprofessionals with annual training opportunities to assist educators of students with unique learning differences. Learning opportunities include responsibility requirements, successful teaching partnerships, behavior strategies, and instructional support. All participants will begin the morning in a general session followed by three different breakout topics. You will receive your rotation schedule at check-in, and lunch will be on your own.
Why Attend the Symposium?
- Gain essential training and tools to support students with unique learning differences effectively.
- Enhance your skills through hands-on sessions covering instructional strategies, responsibilities, and disability awareness.
- Network with fellow paraprofessionals and experts to build successful teaching partnerships.
- Empower your role with confidence and up-to-date knowledge to positively impact inclusive classrooms.
8:30 - 9:45 AM
- Keynote - Supporting Students with Unique Abilities: Paraprofessionals are invaluable in education. Whether your role focuses on instruction, language, physical assistance, behavioral intervention, or other assigned duties, the paraprofessional's goal is to provide support to classroom teachers and/or individual students. Today's trainings are designed to support and develop your confidence as you perform duties in meeting the needs of individuals with unique learning differences in the inclusive classroom.
9:55-11:10 AM
- I'm a New Paraprofessional (Available at 9:55 AM only)
- Are you new to your role as a paraprofessional? This hands-on session will guide you in an exploration of different resources you can readily access for instructional or behavioral strategies. Whether you need to enhance a lesson with more practice items or see the need to adjust the lesson to meet a student's immediate need, you will leave with real-time tools to successfully support the students you support. We will also create a Region 7 account together.
- Navigating My Resources (Available at 9:55 AM, 12:20 PM, & 1:45 PM)
- This hands-on session will guide you in an exploration of different resources you can readily access for instructional or behavioral strategies. Whether you need to enhance a lesson with more practice items or see the need to adjust the lesson to meet a student's immediate need, you will leave with real-time tools to successfully support your students.
- What's My Responsibility as a Paraprofessional? (Available at 9:55 AM, 12:20 PM, & 1:45 PM)
- The classroom teacher is always the primary teacher for all students. The paraprofessional's responsibilities play a critical role in the everyday functioning of many classrooms. This session provides up-to-date information on the appropriate duties of paraprofessionals as they support teachers and students within many different learning environments.
- What Do I Need to Know About the Thirteen Disabilities? (Available at 9:55 AM, 12:20 PM, & 1:45 PM)
- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the law that tells us how to determine if a child is a student with a disability. To better support students with disabilities, it is important to know how the impairment affects the learning. This session will increase your awareness of how disability doesn't define the student. All students have unique strengths and weaknesses.
Register Now and Elevate Your Impact! Don't miss out on this invaluable opportunity to enhance your skills and make a difference in students' lives.
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