Train paraprofessionals to deliver Sound Partners lessons using a local trainer plus manual and video-based professional development¶

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Description¶

The program's staffing model uses local trainers to prepare paraprofessional tutors: "A local trainer (reading specialist, teacher, or special education teacher) will train the local tutors (educational assistants and paraeducators)." Professional development is provided through the Voyager Sopris Learning website, which "provides a training manual and training videos" including clips of a trainer using main lessons with a student; internet access is required for the training materials.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Internet access for training materials
• A local trainer who is a reading specialist, teacher, or special education teacher

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• kindergarten students
• first-grade students

Target Learning Goals¶

• early reading skills including phonics and phonemic awareness

Related Strategies¶

• Staff Passport to Literacy with trained paraprofessional interventionists receiving 8 hours of training over 2 days
• Train teachers to implement peer-tutoring programs through an all-day modeling and role-playing workshop plus a program manual
• Train-the-Trainer professional development for attendance-intervention staff
• Train paraprofessional tutors with one initial day of training plus two two-hour booster sessions
• Staff online tutoring with experienced, highly qualified classroom teachers and provide training in literacy, trauma-informed teaching, and remote instruction
• Select tutors with adequate content expertise and prepare all tutors in cognitive and social congruence, on the job

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Sound Partners. (2024). Sound Partners. https://www.evidenceforesight.org/programs/sound-partners