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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do general education teachers receive any training in how to teach or even how to understand SN children? Are teachers aware of what adhd, autism, etc are? So many are mainstreamed into general Ed that SN teachers aren't even in their lives.[/quote]

Yes. Every teacher needs to take at least 6 credits of special education classes to be certified. We also receive ongoing PD.

What we don’t receive are a lot of additional resources or support. I’ve had classes in which 1/3 of my students have 504s and IEPs. [/quote]

This. Plus, there are many students with other special needs among the remaining 2/3. Often 1/3 are English language learners (or in MCPS, Emerging Multilingual Learners), some of whom might have other needs as well: FARMS and EML, IEP and EML, 504 and EML, or GT and EML. I’ve taught triple-coded and even quadruple coded students in classrooms with 10 IEP/504 students without a second adult to assist.[/quote]Having 1/3 of kids with special needs sounds hard to believe, unless the parents are claiming iep for mild problems which in the past would be considered within the range of normal. Is that what's going on? Are parents over diagnosing, and expecting the school to solve their kids problems, instead of just supplementing at home?[/quote]

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