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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The special education teacher I work with is always complaining that she has so much work but it doesn’t look like it is more work than regular teachers. I think the work load for special education teachers is more cyclical and not spread out as much as for regular teachers. Resource class is a joke. She has 6-8 kids in there with a para and the kids mostly sit on their phones or chat with teacher or each other. For her co-taught classes, I do all the planning and most of the teaching and most of the grading. Yes, paperwork and meetings are tedious for special education teachers but many of us take work home, not just special education teachers. 
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The regular ed teachers I taught with probably also would have said some version of this- minus the phones. What they didn't see was my schedule, which was never the same year to year and included at a minimum both ELA and math (across multiple grade grades), study skills, and possibly science. I had my own resource classes to teach, typically with close to zero age appropriate curricula or resources (middle/high school). Before and after school duties because we were lumped in with the specials teachers. And of course being accountable for 25-50 IEPs being properly implemented when I didn't even have some of the kids in any classes at all. Then resentful regular ed teachers who couldn't be bothered to attend meetings or give a write up for me to speak on at the meeting. This is why we need desperate teachers from other countries to do this job. [/quote]

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