Special Education Teacher Interview by Cody Martin https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks en-us 2021-01-24 19:56:40 UTC 2021-04-10 04:01:38 UTC hello@padlet.com How long have you been teaching special needs children? codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401979589 I worked at rainbows for 10 years and I've worked in public schools for 3 years.]]> 2021-04-10 03:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401979589 What made you choose the teaching profession and, in particular, teaching special needs children? codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401981598 I think it just fit in with my values. I wanted to help people and have a career and still have time off to raise my kids. When I was in college I worked part time at Four County Mental Health and really liked it.]]> 2021-04-10 03:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401981598 How have your ideas toward teaching changed with each passing year of experience? Can you recall your ideas about teaching when you were a teacher education student like me? What were they? What are they now? codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401984661 Before I started teaching I thought that I would spend my first few years building my curriculum and then I would be pretty much set on lesson plans for the rest of my career but I've learned that my lessons will change every year just based on the kinds of students that I have. "The only thing that is consistent is change."]]> 2021-04-10 03:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401984661 How how does teaching children with special needs differ from teaching other children? What are some challenges you face in teaching special needs children? What what are some rewards in in teaching special needs children? codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401987697 For my special needs kids I usually shorten the lesson and give them a separate set of instructions. Sometimes I like to put them together in groups to help each other. I think that special needs children have more intense emotions than a regular education children and sometimes it's a challenge and sometimes it's a reward.]]> 2021-04-10 03:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401987697 What advice can you give me for teaching children with special needs in the regular education classroom? codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401990939 Spend the first part of the school year getting to know each individual sped kid and that will make it easier through the rest of the year to adjust assignments and lesson plans according to their needs. Sometimes you just have to give them options. For example - I made an assignment where students had to create a fake Facebook page and one of my sped kids couldn't use social media because it caused them really intense anxiety and so instead he said that he wanted to make a comic book.]]> 2021-04-10 03:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401990939 What changes, if any, would you make to the educational system with regard to special needs children? Consider such aspects as inclusion, funding, state assessment, etc... codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401991952 For sure, smaller classes. I think the ratio of sped  kids to regular kids should be less. And more para support. Right now three of my four core classes are mixed and only one of them has para support. They definitely need more attention than I can always give them.]]> 2021-04-10 03:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401991952 If you could choose another career field, would you? Please explain your answer in detail. codyam92 https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401994950 I think if I wasn't a teacher I would want some kind of office job either in education or elsewhere. I think I would like working at a museum of some kind. I worked at exploration place for a couple summers before I was a teacher and I really loved it.]]> 2021-04-10 04:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/codyam92/Bookmarks/wish/1401994950