No one wants to work in Tennessee schools. Pay not competitive, benefits few, no union, and now the threat of the disbanding of the Department of Education means even fewer protections.
The shortage is a good indication of how abusive it has become to be a special education teacher. I have the student case load of three teachers, mine and two others as the positions are empty. This is at two different schools. IEPs are written as if special ed teachers will meet with each student alone and provide specialized instruction for 45 minutes in each subject, lets say for example, math, reading, social skills (sometimes it is more subject areas.) You are going to meet with them for 45 minutes in each subject area 5 days a week. Many Special ed teachers also teach a full class load. So as a high school teacher I teach 8 different classes a day in four class periods. When am I suppose to pull those 30 plus students on my case load to give them the specialized instruction in math for 45 minutes, for reading for 45 minutes, for social skills for 45 minutes? The way the laws are written are a stupid and impossible to actually implement. Oh and IEPs take 10 to 20 man hours to develop, 3 year reevaluations 20 to 30 man hours to develop and initial evaluations up to 50 man hours to research and develop. That is for each individual child. Think....impossible to do.
Not all special needs children should be in school. They don’t get anything of value from it. They should be screened first. It’s so ridiculous to have them sit in traditional classes only to stress out every one.
You shouldn't need a teaching degree to "teach" special needs. Especially when is becomes behaving and learning to go to the bathroom everyday. There are many things across the board that could be taught without college teaching degrees.
To add, including the student.
Public schools( all school's)need to have classes for parents who have special needs children , the problem is out of control.
No one wants to work in Tennessee schools. Pay not competitive, benefits few, no union, and now the threat of the disbanding of the Department of Education means even fewer protections.
The shortage is a good indication of how abusive it has become to be a special education teacher. I have the student case load of three teachers, mine and two others as the positions are empty. This is at two different schools. IEPs are written as if special ed teachers will meet with each student alone and provide specialized instruction for 45 minutes in each subject, lets say for example, math, reading, social skills (sometimes it is more subject areas.) You are going to meet with them for 45 minutes in each subject area 5 days a week. Many Special ed teachers also teach a full class load. So as a high school teacher I teach 8 different classes a day in four class periods. When am I suppose to pull those 30 plus students on my case load to give them the specialized instruction in math for 45 minutes, for reading for 45 minutes, for social skills for 45 minutes? The way the laws are written are a stupid and impossible to actually implement. Oh and IEPs take 10 to 20 man hours to develop, 3 year reevaluations 20 to 30 man hours to develop and initial evaluations up to 50 man hours to research and develop. That is for each individual child. Think....impossible to do.
Not all special needs children should be in school. They don’t get anything of value from it. They should be screened first. It’s so ridiculous to have them sit in traditional classes only to stress out every one.
Not my problem.
No teachers means no learning. The kids need teachers
You shouldn't need a teaching degree to "teach" special needs. Especially when is becomes behaving and learning to go to the bathroom everyday. There are many things across the board that could be taught without college teaching degrees.