Paraprofessionals in the News!
- CLASSROOM DILEMMA-New rules give
most teaching aides a tough choice: Go back to school, pass an assessment
test or quit-12/01/02. By Matthew Brown, River Parishes Bureau/The
Times-Picayune. For sixteen years Terri Prough has worked as a teacher's
aide. She is paid $11,887 a year to help special education and regular
students navigate their way through school. If students at East St. John
High School in St. John the Baptist Parish start to stumble in class, Prough,
54, will draw up flash cards to jog their memories. When first-year teachers
are at their wits' end, they sometimes tap the classroom veteran for tips on
the vagaries of instruction. Yet with only one year of college under her
belt, Prough's years of experience count for little under a new federal law.
Along with thousands of other aides in Louisiana and as many as a quarter
million nationwide, her resume no longer measures up to new standards set by
a sweeping federal education reform initiative know as No Child Left ...to
read the rest of article click on the pdf link below for the 4 page
article...CLASSROOM
DILEMMA New Orleans Paper 12022002.pdf
- Teacher's Fret Over Qualification Rule
Mary Bottomley, a reading teacher at Middlesex Elementary School outside
Baltimore, led a class of first-graders through a review of words like
"dot" and "hot"... to read the
rest of the article, click here... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40850-2002Nov11.html
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