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[quote=Anonymous]At our school both my children have been in classes that have a full time teacher and a full time special ed teacher.  Both my kids have IEPs and I've been very open about it and have served as my school rep on the county wide Special Ed PTA, so many parents who wouldn't otherwise talk about it talk to me - so I know many kids with IEPs.  My observation has been that they group many of the kids who have IEPs that require less rigorous classroom accommodations - things like redirects, reminders, special seating, movement breaks, opportunities to have written items read aloud, opportunities to have teachers act as scribes - as opposed to full on pull out, academic or physical services in the class with the second special ed teacher.  These less rigorous accommodations can, and are, managed by classroom teachers often, but if you have several kids with these types of issues, it often helps to have a second full time teacher to assist.

Often these students have IEPs with things like "15 minutes of classroom support per day related to writing anxiety" or what have you, and that can easily be accommodated for many SpEd kids with a special ed teacher who is already in the room to assist.  Even with all these things that the special ed "second teacher" is working on, he or she usually also has other time to assist other neurotypical children in the class.  Yes, first priority needs to be meeting the IEP requirements, but if there are no IEP requirements to meet at that second, there's no reason you can't also be taking a minute to help clarify a math issue for John or help Jane with editing her writing.[/quote]

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