Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trained worker who is not a member of a given profession but assists a professional.
- adjective Of or performing the work of a paraprofessional.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is
trained toassist aprofessional . - adjective Of or relating to this assistance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional
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Examples
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In that incident, an unidentified staff member described as a paraprofessional used masking tape to cover a student's mouth.
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“For Allison Sloan being a paraprofessional is a career path, not just a job,” noted Library Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Francine Fialkoff.
Library Journal Names 2010 Paraprofessional of the Year « ResourceShelf 2010
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Relationships among physicians, paraprofessional staff, pediatric patients and others caring for them
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“I never intended to spawn a whole new professional group or paraprofessional group,” he says.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Liz Malone, who works as a paraprofessional for special-education students, told the governor that she was forced to throw away $200 worth of food that had gone bad in her freezer and can't get paid because schools have been canceled.
Tempers Fray Over Recovery's Pace Lisa Fleisher 2011
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“I never intended to spawn a whole new professional group or paraprofessional group,” he says.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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I do think the explanations of the differences between professional and (what we would now call) paraprofessional work were very accurate and still relevant today. jamisings
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"For those reasons, our resource needs are most acute in the areas of information technology, data access and analysis, human expertise and paraprofessional and administrative support."
Schapiro Defends Bid for SEC Funding Boost Jessica Holzer 2011
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Class sizes are limited by the contract to 18 students in each pre-kindergarten class with one teacher and one paraprofessional; 25 students per kindergarten class; and 34 students per high-school class.
Class-Size Rise Seen by City, Teachers Lisa Fleisher 2011
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Seven third-graders experienced the indignity in one place involving a teacher; the other featured a paraprofessional and a single student.
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