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Related: About this forumTeach For America To Bolster Special Education Training
* Just what they need.
By Shaun Heasley
March 25, 2014 Text Size A A
A program that places recent college graduates in teaching positions across the country after just weeks of training says it will beef up its focus on special education.
Teach for America said it will strengthen training that its participants receive on ability-based mindsets and inclusive practices.
snip* Due to shortages in the field, advocates say that special education is more reliant on alternative training programs than many other teaching specialities.
However, critics have voiced concerns about a lack of transparency in the level of expertise that Teach for Americas teachers have. Under current federal policy, rookie educators can often be dubbed highly qualified even as they work to complete their teaching certification.
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/03/25/teach-america-sped-training/19225/
Demeter
(85,373 posts)I wouldn't trust these amateurs (no, they aren't even in it for the love of teaching...call them scab labor or tyros) with neurotypical kids, let alone anyone not just like them...
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)It also takes a long time ( i.e. longer than two or three years; longer than the life of your TFA contract) before you really understand what you're doing. ( Maybe a little less time for you guys cause... you know... you're real *smart*.)
But at least YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT US! At long last! You figured out that handicapped children actually exist and ( and this is what impresses me) they are actually taught in public schools these days.
Now for the hard part.
Welcome aboard.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and I'll be doing it til I die and her sister takes over....
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Hey... let's not get too real here.
We'll scare the TFA kids off.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Squinch
(52,770 posts)who were assigned to special ed classes. Both were completely lost, the kids lost a year of much-needed learning, and both left teaching after a year.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)No one can give those children back the year they lost.
Squinch
(52,770 posts)And I do have to say, these teachers were well meaning, but they knew that they were incompetent with these kids. They were pretty devastated themselves by what they were costing the kids.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)some leave education altogether.
One would hope upon exiting they would find a public medium in which they share their
experiences..even if it is only to the local newspapers in the districts they were working.
Open letter to the school board...something.
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LuckyLib
(6,892 posts)subject matter classrooms. Wait until they face the additional challenges of children with developmental, social, behavioral, and other needs, and find they are woefully unprepared. Exit left. Guaranteed.