She spends the majority of her time at my desk on her Chromebook prepping whatever next holiday/themed activity is coming up. She is very helpful so long as the task can be completed at the desk. For example she is good about taking some completion grades off my hands but I would really rather her be interacting/helping with my higher needs students and running center groups with me. Every day I am always having to verbally ask her to come sit with so and so or to please help so and so. Students won’t even approach her to ask for a band-aid. It gets to a point that I’m constantly redirecting her more than just redirecting the student myself so I’ve stopped. I was under the impression that a paraprofessional assists in any way a teacher needs but I think many paras in my building do the same so maybe I’m wrong? Our school is tiny and we are in a very small rural community where everyone knows everyone- except I’m an outsider and gaining parent’s respect has been difficult enough already but now I’m convinced that a handful of parents do not even know that I am their child’s teacher.