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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With one teacher and a shared paraeducator.[/quote]
What's a "shared paraeducator"?  [b]I'm imagining a young not-yet-licensed teacher who floats among several classrooms,[/b] but that's just a guess.  Can you explain please?[/quote]
No -- here's the MCPS job description for a paraeducator.
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/personnel/classification/descriptions/description.aspx?fn=6600-602

The shared part, in my children's school, means that there is a paraeducator assigned to four or five classrooms, who goes around among those classrooms as needed. I assume that the respective classroom teachers get together and figure out the paraeducator's classroom tasks and schedule, but I don't know that for a fact.[/quote]
So there's really no significant requirement at all, is there?  I see the college degree preferred language, but it's essentially anyone the school chooses to hire, right?  What kind of person usually fills that role at your child's school?

Getting back to the original question of how many teachers for a class of 17-18, 22-23, or 25-29 (since it seems all flavors are out there), it seems the short answer is "one teacher" even if there might be some limited supplemental help.  Right?[/quote]

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