**The 1965 Project Head Start, 1973 The Rehabilitation Act, The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142), 1984 Public Law 105-332, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, and 1988 The Even Start Family Literacy Program all increased the numbers of paraprofessionals in the United States.

According to Title I and ESEA, a paraprofessional is an individual with instructional

duties.

According to the IDEA, the role expectation for paraprofessionals is to assist in the provision of special education and related services.

The restrictions for paraprofessionals and their roles in the classroom were identified by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Providing academic support through Title I programs is a role that paraprofessionals assume.

The six principles of IDEA include free and appropriate public education (FAPE), nondiscriminatory evaluation, individualized education program (IEP), least restrictive environment (LRE), procedural safeguards, and due process.

Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the ADA (1990) led to the hiring of ________________________.

Title III of the ESEA (No Child Left Behind) addresses the issues of students whose first or home language is not English.

According to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, parents have a right to which of the following (select all that apply).

In 1974, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was created to address the privacy of students and their data. But as the world goes digital, confidentiality breaches become an everyday occurrence. Avoid blogging, texting, tweeting (on Twitter), or writing on Facebook about the students.

A state must outline its plan for ensuring highly qualified staff , including training programs it may put in place or incentives for attracting highly qualified candidates from outside the state.

Professionalism covers____________________ (select all that apply).

A vital part of professionalism and ethics is confidentiality.

Under FERPA regulations you are allowed to disclose some information about a student’s educational records.

Your school or school district may have a dress code to which you are expected to adhere.

Conflict often arises because there is too much communication between two people.

______________ communication can help our natural differences from becoming difficulties that would impede our collaborative work with and for students.

Students are able to know success through careful monitoring and adjustments to their workload.

______________ is generally considered any activity you undertake to identify where students are currently functioning.

______________ in contrast, usually focuses on a specific topic, such as math, language arts, social studies, or history.

_____________ is another word sometimes used in place of evaluation, although the term generally has a less formal application.

______________ is often used interchangeably with assessment, and to simplify we consider them synonyms here

Formative evaluation is ongoing, with the purpose of making personal improvements, while a summative evaluation is an end product and is generally used by the administration for job retention or remediation.

A phrase often used to describe a thoughtful and deliberate approach to teaching is the reflective practitioner

The four components of Even Start includes ________________________________