What are some ways that paraeducators are important links to schools and the surrounding community?

What are some ways that paraeducators are important links to schools and the surrounding community? What do you believe are contributing factors to the attrition rate of paraeducators in your school district?

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Role of Paraeducators
Paraeducators are professionals who help teachers to carry out their professional roles. They work under the supervision of teachers. The role of paraeducators is instructional in nature. However, they do provide other direct services to students such as guiding learners in the library as well as providing instructional directives in computer labs.
More fundamentally, paraeducators are important links to the schools and the surrounding community in a number of ways. First, some paraeducators are parents to some of the students in the school while others maintain close relationships with the families of most students. As such, they tend to have a better understanding of the individual students than the teachers. For example, paraeducators are likely to identify students who need special education early enough (Council of Exceptional Children, 2014). On the same note, paraeducators may help parents to get objective information regarding the general welfare of their children in the school environment. In addition, most of the paraeducators maintain close and personal relationships with students and as such many mentally-troubled children treat them as their confidants. This enhances the…