“What are you doing to meet the needs of your
special education students? If you do
not have special education students, how are you meeting the needs of your low
students? Have you met with your
school’s pre-referral group about these students?”
I have a SPED team that is supposed to take my SPED students during the enrichment time block. They are not very good at communicating accommodations I am supposed to make. I have to track them down myself.
My SPED teacher hates the students, swears at them and sends them back to them class when they are too hard to handle. Luckily, my wife is a SPED teacher with 10 years of experience. She helps me with strategies for them. The student who do stay see it as party time and just quietly talk and avoid work.
Most of my students (80% reading, 90% math) are at a 4-5th grade level. I try to have them learn at the 6th grade level and introduce text so they can read them. We have no writing teacher and the ELA teacher is so focused on reading that I do a lot of writing in my class. For 6 weeks we worked on creating thesis statements instead of writing 3-5 paragraph essays.
Oh my! So sorry your Sped Team isn't quite up to par! That makes it really hard for you the regular classroom ed teacher. Luckily, you have your wife to help bounce ideas off of. Maybe your sped. teacher will decide teaching isn't for them and you'll get someone new??
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