Special Ed Teachers (Raleigh, Durham: school districts, move, special education)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I currently am a high school special ed teacher in Las Vegas. I am still exploring my options for my move in the near future, but Raleigh-Durham region is on the top of my list. I'm hoping that someone familiar with the school districts in the area will be ale to help me out. I was looking at job postings and I see a lot for high school and middle school listed as cross categorical. What does this mean? Is it a co-teaching position (float) or a a single classroom teacher only for special ed students (like resource)? Also, is co-teaching a "thing" in NC? It's very common in NV and I've done both co-teaching and resource.
Bonus question:: what is the difference between general curriculum and cross categorical, in regards to license?
Can depend on the school....it can be pulling kids out in small groups (both those who are academically challenged and those who are academically gifted). Sometimes it is a push-in position or even some combo of pull out and push-in. It can also mean having small groups of kids as a class who need extra help with everything from their work to their organization. My son had a class in middle school called curriculum assistance which was like study hall but with an actual teacher but i know my friend's kids' middle school did not have that.
I can't say if co-teaching is a thing across the state and I'm not sure exactly what it mean to you anyway, so you'd have to be more specific....do you mean two teachers in the same class? I know of an elementary school that is doing that this year. Or do you mean two teachers with the same group of kids and you each split the subject matter in your own classrooms? That is very common here in the higher elementary grades, where the kids switch classes between two teachers, generally one teacher handles math/science and the other lang art/social studies.
Can depend on the school....it can be pulling kids out in small groups (both those who are academically challenged and those who are academically gifted). Sometimes it is a push-in position or even some combo of pull out and push-in. It can also mean having small groups of kids as a class who need extra help with everything from their work to their organization. My son had a class in middle school called curriculum assistance which was like study hall but with an actual teacher but i know my friend's kids' middle school did not have that.
I can't say if co-teaching is a thing across the state and I'm not sure exactly what it mean to you anyway, so you'd have to be more specific....do you mean two teachers in the same class? I know of an elementary school that is doing that this year. Or do you mean two teachers with the same group of kids and you each split the subject matter in your own classrooms? That is very common here in the higher elementary grades, where the kids switch classes between two teachers, generally one teacher handles math/science and the other lang art/social studies.
When you explained your son's class, that made me think of a class we have that is actually called study skills. It would be written into the students IEP. But I have heard a lot of districts offer that kind of class outside of just special education. Co-teaching is for special ed students. It's a general education class with a mixture of both students with and without IEPs. Basically there's 2 teachers in the class, 1 general education and 1 special education teacher. A lot of elementary does this because it's early interventions but at the middle and high school levels it's more so done because it's written into IEP... good way to service many students and they still receive grade level curriculum, just with supports in the classroom.
Yes, I guess what you'd call "co-teaching" is what we call a "push-in" where the SPED teacher pushes into the classroom and helps the students who need extra help. My son has a push-in for math and language arts. Curriculum assistance is definitely only for kids with an IEP here.
North Carolina is a bad place to teach unless you are in something awful in Vegas.
No union. All public school teachers work for the state and have a horrible health plan. Recently, the legislature tried to end tenure.
Many teachers have left when the legislature showed that the desired teachers were new ones with little experience who could be hired for less.
Special ed jobs should be plentiful all over. Think hard before selecting NC.
Good luck
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