Is anywhere hiring teachers??

[ferretkona]

Originally Posted by slowbill

I just quit working as a special education teacher in an Orange County high school. Take my position. You can have 25 kids on your caseload that have the following disabilities; mental retardation, autistic, emotionally disturbed, auditory processing delay, cognative delay, speech problems and the best one is turets..

I missed where you mention that all lessons must be taught in Spanish!

[Bob's Burgers]

Most of the SPED students were minority males and spoke Spanish at home. I got to teach them Romeo and Juliet along with the CA state standards in English. I really liked having an IEP meeting with mom and she tells everybody that her 16 year old boy will go to college. She has lived in the USA for these 16 years and doesn't speak a word of English. If she learned English maybe her boy would not be reading at a tird grade level and have 5/6 special education classes where we hand out dittos.

[bulldogvillan]

Originally Posted by slowbill

I just quit working as a special education teacher in an Orange County high school. Take my position. You can have 25 kids on your caseload that have the following disabilities; mental retardation, autistic, emotionally disturbed, auditory processing delay, cognative delay, speech problems and the best one is turets. By the way all these kids must be taught CA State Standards, and they all are going to go to college. You must have at least one 1-2 hour IEP per kid per year with an administrator, a regular ed teacher, sometimes a school psychologist, the student and the parent . You will need an interpretor for 20 of the 25 IEPS. You must have the CLAD Certificate and the new Autism Credential. You must be highly qulified to teach English or math. Westminster High School is a non-performing school; a "failing school" because it tests poorly. Remember all those kids are going to college; do not mention vocational training. I really will miss teaching a class for the CAHSEExam to these kids, who by the way have this test waived because they are in SPED; they still get a diploma while those regular ed students who fail the CAHSEE will not get a diploma. It was a pleasure teaching when the turets kid kept making noises. Good luck. If you want to teach regular education , you will have these students put in your class of 35. Good luck.

Bill, I know where you are coming from. Take your caseload number and triple it. Take your IEPs and quadruple it. Then subtract prep periods and a lunch. Then have all staff on campus and administrators at the district refer to you as "speech teacher." Then have a principle try to tell you how to do your job when they have neither a)a degree in your field b) experience in your field c) any clue as to what exactly a speech-language pathologist does. Then be prepared to have every single clinical decision criticized by not only the parent/advocate/attorney, but also by the teacher and administrator. It's quite lovely.

[mblouin]

You will probably have more luck applying to Charter Schools or private schools.
Actually our company Bixby Education Events, Inc. is looking for a few new teachers to help us with our arts integration program with home school and charter school community for orange county.
If you or anyone you know has experience in teaching academics through the arts, we would love to speak to you. Please contact me at [email]mblouin6354@gmail.com[/email]