{"id":2068,"date":"2013-10-01T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2014-01-13T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T04:48:24","slug":"tips-for-instructional-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Instructional Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Instructional Assistant&#8217;s Mission Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Know well both your students and the disabilities that they manifest.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to take your students&#8217; perspectives, and realize that they have significant difficulty taking yours.<\/li>\n<li>Always look beyond your students&#8217; behaviors to determine the functions that those behaviors serve.<\/li>\n<li>Be neither blinded by your students&#8217; strengths, nor hold them to standards they cannot meet.<\/li>\n<li>Master the art of rendering the appropriate degree of support for your students&#8217; level of skill development and behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Exercise vilgilance in fading back prompts and promoting competence and independence in your students.<\/li>\n<li>Be proactive both in seeking out information to help your students, and in preparing and implementing the supports that they need to be successful.<\/li>\n<li>Be a team palyer-work collaborately with your peers.<\/li>\n<li>Leave your egos at the door!<\/li>\n<li>Perform your duties mindfully, responsibly, and respectfully at all times.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The above are some tips recommended by the <em>Cupertino School District<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Instructional Assistant&#8217;s Mission Statement Know well both your students and the disabilities that they manifest. Learn to take your students&#8217; perspectives, and realize that they have significant difficulty taking yours. Always look beyond your students&#8217; behaviors to determine the functions that those behaviors serve. Be neither blinded by your students&#8217; strengths, nor hold them &#8230; <a title=\"Tips for Instructional Assistants\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=2068\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tips for Instructional Assistants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,381,10,20,111,30,50,14,383,43,13,27,31,37,52,382,9],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aids","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-discipline","tag-early-intervention","tag-flexibility","tag-independence","tag-organization","tag-parenting","tag-rewards","tag-schedule","tag-sensory","tag-social-interaction","tag-speech","tag-symptoms-of-autism","tag-tips","tag-visual-aids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}