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Originally Posted by Katydid
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Originally Posted by mommyTay
"teachers in public schools are trained to deal with the disabilities"
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This is so not true! I have a degree in art education and we maybe spent 1/2 of 1 semester going over stuff like IEP's and dealing with disabilities. I never have gone into teaching, but I can't imagine that any more "training" would have been offered (except "on the job" training, meaning trial and error!)
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Right. General Ed teachers get very little training in Special Ed issues, and even many Special Ed teachers have little training as well. It is very difficult to find people Special Ed teachers, as there is a high burn-out and turn-over rate, so there's no guarantee even putting a kid with Special needs in a class with a SPED teacher would put him with someone who knows very much at all about the disability.
I just finished a year as a Special Ed Pre-K teacher, but I did it through an Alternative Certification program, which meant I had only on-the-job training. And by that, I mean it was whatever happened in the classroom with the kids. I had
maybe six hours total training in Special Needs. Some were from my AC program, and mainly covering the legal stuff, then we had an hour and a half of workshops with other teachers in our actual area of Early Childhood. The trainings we did have at school through the year were all General Ed. We did have specialists come out, so that was nice, but it was kind of too late.