{"id":11329,"date":"2018-08-14T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:30:36","slug":"do-paraeducators-make-great-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/do-paraeducators-make-great-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Paraeducators make great teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen this before with many of our <a href=\"https:\/\/texas.teachersoftomorrow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Teachers<\/a> candidates who start as paraeducators or substitute teachers &#8211; because they know the school, know the students and have been around classrooms &#8211; they can make outstanding teachers.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t take our word for it &#8211; ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-mandy-manning-teacher-year-who-handed-trump-letters-refugee-students-909114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandy Manning<\/a>. She is the National Teacher of the Year for 2018 and she was a paraeducator who went through an alternative certification program.\u00a0 She is now a National Board Certified teacher who has hosted over 160 new teachers in her classroom over the years.\u00a0 She teaches English.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you call it paraprofessional or paraeducator, that valuable experience in the classroom that connection to students really makes you an incredibly valuable teacher.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a paraeducator and are ready to teach, our programs can help you get there so that you ready to succeed!\u00a0 Let Mandy Manning be your guide &#8211; every child deserves a great teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We have seen this before with many of our Texas Teachers candidates who start as paraeducators or substitute teachers &#8211; because they know the school, know the students and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-teacher-of-the-year"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-02-06 18:26:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11330,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/11330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}