A must for every classroom teacher!

Designed with the busy educator in mind, Melding provides essential guidance and field-tested tools to help your teachers effectively mentor and supervise paraeducators who support students with disabilities across varied educational settings.

Step-by-step, partner teachers receive specific guidelines and action points on everything from interviewing and establishing rapport with paraeducators to negotiating specific roles and responsibilities.

Ready-made forms, checklists, and reflective practice worksheets facilitate and secure effective working relationships by providing ongoing interaction, reinforcing key concepts, instilling a teamwork mentality, and ensuring paraeducators receive proper training and professional development opportunities as mandated under NCLB and IDEA.

Worksheets, exercises and tools cover how to:

• Review best instructional and behavioral practices
• Model People First language and actions
• Explain confidentiality, legal issues, types of needs and levels of support
• Review and practice data collection methods
• And much more