I’m a sped teacher and I do free choice time. I have to give my students something to work for or they would all fall apart. I call it “choice...
Can you go pick up your kiddo and bring them back to school with you? That’s usually what I do if I don’t have a sitter. He’s used to going to the...
I just have to get a sitter. My school requires a ton of after school trainings and meetings, so we arrange grandparents to pick-up or I pay...
I teach sped resource and have a caseload of Kindergarten only. My writing resource group has a wide level of abilities, from kiddos who have very...
Our K paras supervise K/1 lunch, then ESL staff/intervention teachers/and instructional paras rotate lunch duty for 2-5.
It sounds like there’s a lack of communication overall in your center. Can you not just go to the director and express your concerns and desire to...
I would also contact HR. I know we have a speech therapist that works .5 for our district and .5 for another. I think our guidelines say that you...
1) Yes, bus riders dismiss from classrooms. They meet their assigned staff person in the hallway and then walk together in a quiet line to the...
I’m in a large elementary school as well. We have a super structured dismissal that goes pretty flawlessly. We’re also PBIS and we practice...
Yeah I definitely wouldn’t take a 5 year old to a quiet place and tell her you really like her. From a teacher of 5 year olds, that story will not...
So it sounds like there’s a few different issues happening. Just to focus on the children though, here’s some things to think about: what does...
Agreed with above, I would spend that money on other things. If the school can’t afford proper furniture, I’m betting there isn’t a ton of funding...
This. The strongest personalities will usually stand out the first day. I had a student last year who pinched my arm the first day of school and I...
Yes we have a Masters, Masters +15, and Masters +30.
I’ve only ever taught in public preschool or headstart in Title 1 schools, so those are the populations I’m used to and love. It’s definitely...
I’m sorry you’ve had such bad experiences. I saw one of your other posts stating that you don’t want to teach public preschool. Can I ask why?...
This fall I’ll be moving from 13 years in self contained to sped resource in elementary. I have a lot of students with both resource and...
I’ve been a self-contained sped/autism teacher for the past 8 years. Next year I’m moving positions (still at my school) to a K-5 resource...
Our K-5 uses class dojo. K-2 use it as frequent positive reinforcement for good choices (I.e. “Thanks Johnny for following directions so quickly,...
My school has similar demographics and is generally considered “low performing” but we’re also Title 1 and serve a really hard population of...
