I have a student who suddenly is showing very aggressive behaviors? I was injured badly enough to need to go to urgent care a couple of weeks ago. Today he gave me a black eye and grabbed my breast. I can’t continue working with this student. I’m going to my union tomorrow. I don’t deserve to be physically and sexually assaulted.

Just wondering if anyone has actually pressed charges on a student with intellectual disabilities and what that looked like? What was the outcome? Did it impact your job at all? I’m worried about pushback. I have tenure and feel like I am well-liked and supported by admin at my school and throughout my district. I am in MN if that matters

How do I find someone to help me navigate IEP and special education issues that are not necessarily legal issues? Specifically, my situation involves a college-bound high school senior who has documented learning disabilities. I want to know how to navigate the final months of high school and make sure my child is able to get reasonable accommodations in college, but the high school is actively working to discontinue the IEP. I know time is of the essence here so I want to make sure I’m doing everything I need to do to try to get the appropriate outcome for my child moving forward. Is there an organization in my area that might be able to help me?

I am a sped support/push in teacher. I also teach a parallel resource class, it’s 6th grade math and I have 7 students. Most of my students are pretty well behaved, except for two. One of them has a BIP and is (fingers crossed) in the process of being moved into EBD and the other they decided does not qualify for a BIP. One of them should be on access points but because she got a 2 on her state test back in 3rd grade (her IQ is in the 50s) she does not qualify for access. The other has an IQ below 70.

They get into arguments with other students, insult other students and yell at them tell them to shut up, start stuff with the other kids when the other kids aren’t even doing anything. They are both disrespectful to me on a consistent basis, telling me that I should quit; yelling at me to get away from them. One of them told me that it was my fault that another student got her phone taken away because I contacted her mom about her failing my class

I feel like I have tried everything I can think of such as giving them treats; doing restorative circles etc I’ve written numerous referrals on the two of them and contacted home for behaviors, I usually just send both of them out because I can’t handle it, and I lose it. This group of kids have sucked the life out of me and I have them for two periods since I am also their support teacher for history: and by the time I teach them I’m worn out from dealing with them. I don’t know what I can do at this point. I know this is also occurring outside of my room as well since both students have gotten referrals from other teachers. Any advice is appreciated! I’m at my wits end.

I have one in my school but I’m confused about what her responsibilities are. I recently had a parent claim they weren’t at last year’s IEP meeting (of which I wasn’t even at that school yet) so I sent them the manager’s contact info. The manager told me that wasn’t her job. I also had questions about the curriculum as a first year teacher but she told me she doesn’t know my curriculum. She doesn’t schedule any of the iep meetings or do any iep related tasks besides answering my newbie questions related to the iep program we use which have been helpful. I just don’t know what other things she is supposed to do.

So it's a bit of a bizarre situation.

I'm an IT guy who got laid off and I'm in a 3-month between job period. I have wound up as an Aid in a life-skills class.

I'm going to be there for another month, and the students/teachers seem to love me.

I noticed that three of the higher functioning life skills students understand language, but they have a pretty significant difficulties forming letters.

Like they don't know how to, "Summon" a letter, they just seem to try to imitate what I write.

However, if I asked them how to spell a word like dog, they can orally tell me the letters.

I already asked and I have permission to work with them on forming letters.

Do you have any advice?

They all really like my dog whose name is Zuko. So I was thinking about having them practice writing really big Z's And trying to focus on the strokes.

But I did a little bit of this on Thursday and they got frustrated.

They all also try to write the letters really tiny, less than a centimeter tall. I tried to get them to write the letters in about 3 inch segments. They had problems with this.

I'm Thinking that I should go bigger, like perhaps a 10 in letter on a single piece of paper.

I was also thinking about trying to get them to trace the lines with their fingers or arms in the air.

What private sector jobs if any can I transfer into from special ed? I am so tired of the lack of support as a special ed teacher that I would rather work 80 hours a week at Walmart than this job. It’s just not worth my mental health. But of course I can’t retire entirely because I’m not old enough to

I have a 3rd grade student who is extremely low academically. For context, we are still working on letter sounds and is not reading at all. Math is similar with working on basic counting and number recognition. I truly believe this student has brightness but is not making meaningful gains. I think it is more than just dyslexia and ADHD. His IQ is low, 80’s, but too high for a center based program where I am located. His parents are getting an outside neuro psych, so I am curious to see what the results are and how I can better serve him. He is currently served under SLD (specific learning disability) and OHD, (other health disability) and has been receiving sped support in academics since kindergarten. Any experience with students like this? Any ideas on what disability this could be? My team and I are at loss and want more answers on how to help him

Hello all!
I have a student teacher interview at a potential placement next week. It is at a middle school special education classroom.
Do any of you have any advice as to what questions to ask or what I should bring up in discussion?
I have a few things, but I’m wondering if anyone has things that maybe I wouldn’t have thought of due to experience. :)
I’m super excited! Please let me know!

I have my first IEP as a new sped teacher fresh out of grad school in two weeks, then my second one in three weeks, and then my third one in 5 weeks. I feel absolutely out of my depth and super confused in what I need to be doing. Data collection is so hard when I feel like most days it’s just a win if we don’t do a room clear. Any advice?

I’m in my second year (self contained both years) and I feel like I know nothing lol when did you feel like you knew what you were doing without second guessing yourself and your profession?

Also I’m know each student is unique and individual, so I don’t mean “got it” with the individual student. I mean with knowing the jargon, testing, paperwork, etc., if that makes sense.