1.3 (1K3B): Understanding of the distinctions between roles and responsibilities of professionals, paraprofessionals, and support personnel.

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Creating a Job Description

The teacher and administrator will have certain professional and role-oriented expectations of the paraprofessional. Therefore, specifying what is expected by the teacher and the administrator of someone assuming the role of paraprofessional is needed. As a team, it is important to begin this process before, or immediately upon starting a new assignment. The paraprofessional's own expectations and goals are also important areas to discuss.

Job descriptions for the paraprofessional may exist at more than one level: the district, the building, and the classroom levels. Working together as a team to generate a job description, both general to the building and specific to the classroom, is an important first step in clearly identifying roles and responsibilities.

The Para eLink is sponsored by the Minnesota Paraprofessional Consortium, in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Education, located at the Institute on Community Integration in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.

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