I have usually avoided “Special Day Class” assignments because of all the horror stories others have told me about. But I took this assignment today because there doesn’t seem to be much of the “regular class” variety.
First up, NO LESSON PLAN. The class DID have two aides for the sixteen students.
If those aids weren’t there, I wouldn’t know what I was supposed to do or even how to do it. There was a mix of mentally retarded, autistic, and really below grade level mix of 4th, 5th grade students.
One kid has something called “Williams syndrome”, another autistic, another one spent part of the movie eating Styrofoam (…not sure if he swallowed any before I took it away from him). And a fourth kid was a continually scratching her legs.
I probably won’t volunteer for this again.
2 comments:
How could a teacher possibly have no lesson plan? I don't get it.
Yes, SpEd can be challenging. The last 2 years I taught Emotionally Disturbed classes. You really relied on the aides to run things when a sub was needed.
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