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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The workload and behavior combo is what is killing education. Most college programs are curriculum and pedagogy heavy. A young new teacher will be able to write you a beautiful lesson plan but will have minimal knowledge about how to work with high intensity behaviors. With how kids are now it needs to be completely flipped, behaviors taught with more intensity and academics and curriculum taught on the job/ student teaching. If you can’t do behaviors you might as well not show up in an elementary school classroom or Special Education.[/quote]

Even veteran teachers are having difficulty with behaviors. I retired last year after 30 years. I had about 24 or 25 very good, enjoyable years teaching in an ES. Then I had a class that was very difficult to manage. The next year, 2019-2020 was perhaps my best class ever, but my last two years following the hybrid year were very difficult again. I was spending so much time trying to manage behaviors that I can’t even begin to describe. I was super stressed and had little help from the administrators. I was trying every trick of the trade and I’d be in the class thinking, “I don’t know what else to do”. I’ve done some subbing for IAs and been in classes where I’m still amazed at the way students speak to veteran teachers and there’s nothing the teacher can do about it. The verbal abuse they take from ES students is just awful. Some classes are better than others, but there are classes that have a few students that make teaching and learning very difficult. [/quote]

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