Kelly Education Learning Pathways™
Paraeducator Training
Equip your paraeducators with strategies and insight to best support students—with help from our focused training designed for adult learners.
Investing in paraeducators means investing in student success.
$39.99/license | 4.5 hours of training
Paraeducators are essential members of the special education team. Research shows that professional development improves teaching practices and student achievement, while proper training increases employee retention and preparedness.
Comprehensive training includes:
IEP Implementation & Legal Foundations
Navigate IEPs, accommodations and modifications, IEP goals, and testing accommodations, while understanding legal obligations including IDEA concepts (FAPE, LRE), FERPA, confidentiality, CAPTA, and mandated reporter responsibilities
Instructional Strategies & Learning Support
Techniques for checking for understanding, organizing learning, scaffolding, data collection, differentiated instruction, explicit teaching, multisensory learning, modeling, and using adapted tools to support diverse learners including students who are ELL
Behavior Management & Safety Protocols
Crisis response, student and personal safety, BIP implementation, ABA principles, prompting hierarchy and fading, restraint and seclusion guidelines, and supporting students' emotional intelligence and self-regulatory skills
Disability Awareness & Communication
Understand IDEA disability categories with corresponding strategies, person-first language, supporting nonspeaking or prespeaking students, nonverbal communication skills, AAC, active listening, and recognizing emotional triggers
Professional Responsibilities & Collaboration
Role and basic responsibilities across social, behavioral, physical, academic, safety, and ADL support, the LEARN framework, universal expectations of the profession, working with related services providers, inclusion practices, professionalism, and building grit, resilience, and social skills in students
