@user-dm6yu6tj6k as someone who works in SPED as a case manager and a resource teacher... honestly no. The pay isnt great because you're basically always busy and somebody is always asking for something and it takes away from your desire to want to help the kids( at least in my experience) due to being worn out in every other aspect of the job... If they would hire more staff and actually split those jobs then it would help tremendously

I just left my Sped teaching job for this very reason. In the middle of the school year. I was done. Hours upon a hours of work taken home. I even hired a VA to help, but there’s only so much they can do.

No, facts! And I have my own child on the spectrum and we are both affected… also loooove my job, love my middle schoolers, but 2 years in, I am probably definitely tapping out after the end of this SY 😢 What’s sad is ‘someone gotta do the job!’ I plan to continue my contributions to the field of Special Education in other ways ❤

I'm gen ed. I'm writing lesson plans right now ( u know, during our "vacation") because it's too much to do when school starts. I turned down team lead, not doing any extracurricular, and will not be doing voluntary dyslexia interventions. We have instructional coached just walking around the building....nope, going home at 4 as many days as I can. Teach my kids and burn out the parking lot. Not losing any more hair, not going to be consumed with work.

Get out of the building if possible! I sat in my cat and ate in PEACE. Shoot, give me my 30 minutes!

That's plain wrong and disrespectful on so many levels. I say that because she has to spend a lot of time with those kids and should not have to go in to the year blind. I'm not sure if she's a TA or just someone there to assist, but TAs and others who provide additional support should always be involved in the planning some kind of way.

Oh so you want them to struggle?

This is incredibly ignorant lmao

This is the way teaching has always been. People just don't want to work hard these days.

And yet there you go comparing the jobs… walk a day in our shoes before you judge it. Why not say they are apples to oranges and cannot be compared? Of course what you do is more challenging in some ways just like what we do is challenging in some ways. Instead of bashing us, why not just say both jobs are challenging and stop there? I would never try to say your job is easier or less demanding if I haven’t tried it before.

You have absolutely no clue what goes on in the island of Sped classrooms. Yes, I called them islands, because nobody knows what it takes to be effective in a Sped classroom except for those who are in it day in and day out. Don’t let what you see on paper fool you.

@@ponderosabeach5272 exactly. I worked in both a gen Ed and sped classroom. In terms of teaching, sped is more challenging because the kids have a harder time listening and understanding what you're teaching during a lesson. However, it depends on the class and this is what I experienced when working in an AAF classroom. Also what the top guy fails to understand is that you cannot have a lot of students in a sped class. Those classes are small for a reason, which has to do with overstimulation and other challenges that they have. I am getting ready to become a lead teacher for gen Ed social studies at the middle school level. Both sped and gen Ed have their challenges, but I will never be an assistant again. It's not because of the students, it was the staff that I worked with and it's very easy to run into that again. We had two sped classes and my lead teacher got with admin and decided to combine both classes, which was a disaster. Working with 20 to 30 kids in a gen Ed class is a piece of cake compared to that experience. A big issue with some sped programs is that they don't want to communicate with the TAs nor have them involved in the planning. I understand they can't be involved in the meetings of course, I am specifically talking about knowing what's going on in the classroom itself. What I mean is knowing expectations for handling behaviors, when to handle it yourself, or allow the lead teacher to handle it, which direction you should be facing so you can see all the students, and making sure full hands are on deck if the TA has runners. When I was a TA these were the problems I faced.

If your licensed under that state just simply walk up to a school plan to speak with a principal and see if there are any vacancies. Trust me they will hire you but be on time and dependable because the case load is alot

No. Special education is for people with special needs. It's tailored to meet the needs of with people disabilities.

@@Whitneypyantyes and this means any and all disabilities learning disabilities speech and language delays intellectually disabled kiddos and physically disabled

Your bachelor’s can be in any subject as long as you earn your credentials as well and take any tests required to become a teacher (CBEST, CSET, RICA). Keep in mind though, that there may be prerequisite courses if your bachelor’s degree is not in education/liberal arts.

In case anyone hasn’t told you, I’m so proud of you. 😊

In our state you have to

In my state (NC) you don’t have to. You don’t even have to have a teachers license. But honestly if you’re considering it go into subbing and “try on” different schools. I’m miserable at the school I’m at, have been since day 2 of working & I wish I would’ve tried different schools before going to one. Now I’m traumatized and rather leave education than try again 😭 special Ed can get really hectic especially as a first year teacher and 9/10 it won’t be the kids that stress you out

Hi, M.M. Special Ed teachers work with kids who have disabilities… it can be a wide variety of disabilities and settings. From autism to language disorders, ADHD to Tourette’s syndrome and everything in between. Most of us work in gen Ed classes, but some do pull out or self contained classes to work on student individual learning needs per their ieps.

@@476233yeah basically it’s like extra help for kids who have difficulty understanding or at least in my case

I'm a level 2/3 behavior teacher, my curriculum in class revolves around social skills and behavioral regulation. It's one of the hardest jobs at a school, and often the most thankless

That's insane it's a federal law to educate all students look up IDEA