DESCRIPTORS Delivery Systems; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness;

A program training model used at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to prepare special education graduate and undergraduate students to work with paraprofessionals is described. Topics addressed include the following: (1) improvement of instruction and services to handicapped students through 'ise of paraprofessionals; (2) significant role of paraprofessionals in delivery of instructional activities; (.3) role of the special educator as instructional manager; (4) need for adequate preservice, inservicc, and on-the-job training for paraprofessionals; (5) planning and evaluation of paraprofessional performance; (6) responsibility of the teacher for instructional outcomes; (7) need for preservice and inservice teacher training to:-tlp teachers use paraprofessionals effectively; (8) role of the teacher in contributing to policies concerning paraprofessionals; (9) need fo