Virtual Special Education Teacher | Day in the life Vlog | High School Self Contained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Have you wondered what a day in the life of a special education teacher looks like? Come along with me throughout my day in the life as a Special Education High School Teacher in a Virtual School! I am a special education teacher doing distance learning for high school English classes. In this teacher vlog I show you a day in the life of a teacher in 2021 at a virtual school. I work with a life skills or self contained population at the high school level. I hope you enjoy this special education teacher day in the life vlog, let me know in the chat!
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About Me: I am a high school special education teacher at a cyber charter school. This means we are all virtual, all the time! I work in what would be considered a life skills or self-contained program in a typical brick and mortar school. This means my students are working several grade levels below their peers. I mainly teach reading classes and the students rotate through several teachers in our department for other subjects. A lot of my students and their families have chosen virtual learning due to bullying at their local school or a high number of medical and therapy appointments that make attendance at a typical school difficult. I also teach English as a Second Language online to kids in China through several different companies. I can do this before/after school and on the weekends. I have the BEST students in the world :)
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Being a high school special education teacher is something I don’t see a lot of on social media! I hope this video helps give a glimpse of what it’s like ;) If you are interested in looking for a virtual teaching job check out this video: th-cam.com/video/blQJhom9KSc/w-d-xo.html
How can I find a Virtual teacher for an 8/9th grade US resident, high functioning autistic, living in Costa Rica?
@@micahtravel I would look into Pearson Online Academy, it is a virtual private school.
@@TeacherBrett Thank you!
I just accepted a high school special education ELA position virtually! I am watching all your videos! Lol
I hated doing the case management responsibilities when I do not work directly with a student. Those IEPs are I feel least confident, represent the learning needs, including supplemental supports.. adoptions to those supports, using and accessing visuals, when and how best to adapt or modify instructions, etc. How do you make that work? How often are you calibrating? Do you push into general education to support? I am just curious because these are all challenges in SPED with in person instruction, so imagine virtual instruction even more so?
Welcome back! You make me tired by just explaining your schedule... wow that is a LOT of live teaching time. You are so right the paperwork/meetings/case management never goes away. I hope your department reorganizes so that the teaching time can be more equitably distributed next year. Your experience reminds me a lot of my time teaching SLIFE (students with limited/interrupted formal education) I taught basic reading and math concepts to high school age students performing at a primary level in their first language. I bet you make most of your lessons from scratch or have to heavily modify everything so a ton of prep too! Happy to see and hear from you I look forward to more teaching vlogs. :-)
Yes definitely similar skills being taught! My fingers are crossed and it sounds like there will be some changes next year!
Thanks for doing this. I’ve been curious
I missed your vlogs! All of your content is great but your vlogs are the most interesting for me to watch. I'm happy for you that you were able to find a new teaching platform - closer to home - that still allows you to work from home. Have a great winter!
P.S. - I'm glad you got to have your pizza! hahaha
Hi Robert! Glad to “see” you again ;) It is supposed to snow again here tomorrow...I will be glad when winter is over!! Lol!
Your video just popped up in my feed - haven't seen your videos in ages! Nice to see your virtual teaching life! So interesting. If I ever had to go "Back to a teaching job", this would be a neat route! Keep sharing!
I took a long break for my sanity with kids at home during COVID, lol!!!
@@TeacherBrett haha totally get it! I don't know how you do it.
Definitely need to see the other snake!
Oh my goodness, I would LOVE to be solely a case manager. I feel like I'm a really good paperwork person. I could SO do that if teaching didn't "get in the way" LOL
You're a superhuman! 👏👏👏
New subscriber here! I also teach special ed but in the Philippines.
I would love to hear more about how special education works in other areas! It is so fascinating! Thanks for subscribing ;)
Hello Teacher Brett! Thanks so much for your videos. They’re so helpful. I’m currently seeking an online elementary teaching position for 2nd grade through K12. I’m really interested on what a typical day looks like and I know 2nd grade is probably a lot different than what you teach for special Ed. However would you say you have a better work-life balance than if you worked in a brick and mortar school? And what made you want to work from home than in an actual classroom?
Yes I would like to see her perspective on comparing full time teaching virtually vs. full time teaching in a brick and mortar school. I’m afraid that with virtual, it’ll be more work and require more of my personal time. Which is not ideal.
Is there a certain laptop or computer brand or must haves that you recommend for teaching online?
I really like my Microsoft Surface Pro, just make sure the computer has a lot of memory so it doesn’t slow down once you start downloading and storing things on it. An external camera will usually give you a way better picture on video. A headset with a microphone is really important to students don’t hear an echo while you teach too!
How did you come about this position?
Hi! Great video..what are their requirements to teach?
This is technically considered a public school, so you need to have a state teaching license!
Interesting video. At 11:30 I couldn't believe you said you're teaching kids to use cash though. That's not a skill they'll need in the future as we're heading toward a cashless society. A lot of businesses don't accept cash anymore because of Covid and how dirty coins and bills are.
I have debated about this, but it is important to the parents and it incorporates basic counting and one to one identification skills that they need anyway. I don’t know that any of these students will ever be able to have a credit card/debit card independently. They may have some pocket money though.
@@TeacherBrett The numeracy practice is good but carrying a wallet will be as old-fashioned as owning a rotary phone. The future is cashless and driven by contactless payments to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. For example the Pennsylvania Turnpike won't accept cash or credit cards anymore specifically because of this. Probably not long until retailers do the same & the only way to pay is with an app.