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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why there are so many terrible special ed teachers and aides. They will take any warm body. It is really frustrating.

-A sped teacher[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Well what choice do they have? You can't make people want to work in Sped.[/quote]

But the reason they need to keep hiring for sped is because most school systems aren’t attending to the reason for the high attrition rate. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle; insufficiently trained or inexperienced teachers are hired, little training or support is given (but heavy on the high pressure and criticism), the teacher burns out or gets overwhelmed and moves on, and another brand-new inexperienced teacher is hired in their stead. Rinse, repeat.

Ensuring that new sped teachers were not saddled with an overwhelming caseload and providing them enough support to learn the different aspects of their job would go a long way towards retention IME. (I’m not a sped teacher, but I have seen SO many cycle brought this way).[/quote]

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