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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular gen ed classroom heck no! Focus, reading specialist, staff development, speech, ot, esl media, p.e....maybe. [/quote]

Agree, huge growth in esol and esol counseling. Is at specialty pay and low hours [/quote]

Elementary ESOL teacher here (in a doctors waiting room). That's not actually the case. I'm at the same pay scale as general ed teachers and my caseload increases every year. I teach 5 different grade levels which means knowing the curriculum for all of them and also creating materials and assessments for all of them since we don't have a curriculum provided to us. I have 55 students on my caseload this year and they come and go all the time so I'm constantly shifting my schedule around to meet needs since students need varying amounts of support.

I'm here before and after school and bring work home. Then there's the whole business of coordinating the annual language proficiency test and also being pulled to cover classes during your in school planning time as well as being assigned multiple weekly duties. Your subs will be pulled if there's not coverage for a classroom teacher so a lot of time is spent wasted on securing subs and writing detailed sub plans only to have the sub pulled that morning to cover a classroom.

I definitely would not want to be a classroom teacher but ESOL isn't a walk in the park either. [/quote]

Wow. Another ESOL teacher here. Did I write this?  Ditto all of this except for covering classes for other people. It's against our contract and our principal knows it so she doesn't even try. No curriculum here either so I reinvent the wheel every day for 4 different grade levels.  Thank goodness for the Internet and Teachers Pay Teachers.  I spend so much money just trying to do my job. They announced that they are increasing the test out score for the WIDA ACCESS test this year so the target keeps moving.  I now have 52 students and I am exhausted. [/quote]

I'm the ESOL PP you responded to. Yes, the amount of money I spend on TPT is insane! I cringe when I see my bill at the end of the year.

When did they announce that they're increasing the score for ACCESS? I haven't heard anything about that, although I did notice that the majority of my 1st graders came out as Tier A which I thought was strange compared to last year's results. What are the new requirements for exit? [/quote]

It may just be my district. I guess we will find out when scores come back in May. They haven't even told us the exit score. I swear they make this up as they go along. [/quote]

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