Much of the article is based on a series of interviews with paraprofessionals in Head Start programs, conducted in 1970 by the authors for the Bank Street College of Education Career Development Training Program. (MB)

Focuses on the development of roles in collaborative teaching arrangements, examining the use of paraprofessionals in schools as part of a differentiated staffing program and the implementation of team teaching arrangements. Additionally illustrates that the expectations role incumbents have on their behavior influences the degree to which the…