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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SPED teacher trainees often can’t do the IEP paperwork and can’t assess with individualized, normed tests. They also (often) aren’t given independent Seastars access. All of that adds up to a bigger workload for already stretched thin experienced special education teachers. One can’t teach 5 classes at 5+ different grade levels, lesson plan for those classes,  monitor progress on over 175 goals quarterly (That’s 600+ data samples quarterly), grade work and give meaningful feedback in a timely fashion, provide opportunities for remediation, communicate with parents, case manage 18 students, prepare IEPs, hold IEP meetings, send countless documents home in the time given AND do half the job of the trainee.  It’s FCPS’s way of not solving the problem.  The kids are not winning here. I am suspicious of the numbers. Who would stay?  If they are accurate, it’s because the SPED teachers are moving to another school looking for greener pastures-which aren’t likely to be found.  [/quote]

This! I have two friends in SPED who tried new schools. Both are unhappy and one told me they are leaving SPED next year because the issues are the same all over the county and even though they feel they have better admin at their new school the issues in SPED are to great to keep them there. Prepare for more trainees in SPED.[/quote]

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