It's Not Easy Teaching Special Education Summary

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It’s Not Easy Teaching Special Ed
This article written by a former teacher that could not handle the stress from being in the Special Education department. She enjoyed teaching, but she didn’t enjoy all of the paperwork that went along with the SPED department. After quitting her job she decided that she would find out how SPED teachers handled everything and so she went to a former classmate who had been teaching Special education for 3 years to see how she coped with the work. In comes Stephanie, who was in her 40’s when she went back to school and she had a child with special needs. Stephanie said that the classroom was her “joy” and that there was a lot of paper work involved to keep IEP’s updated. What paperwork Stephanie doesn’t

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