The Everyday Challenges of a Sepcial Education Teacher

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Being a Special Education teacher is a very good career choice. Special education teachers have many challenges on a day-to-day basis. According to Brownel, Sindelar, Kiely, and Danielson (2010), the evolving nature of special education has increased these teaching challenges. Rapid advances in technology have also contributed to these challenges. Therefore, special education teachers must be knowledgeable of evidence based intervention strategies that address specific student needs.

These intervention strategies should enhance the success of students with a variety of challenging disabilities in the classroom. Some of the students may have cognitive, physical, and emotional disabilities. The special education teacher must learn how to address many types of disabilities.

The one quality that may be valuable to be successful in this specific career. As a Special Needs Teacher (S.N.T.) working with students with different disabilities are having to know that lots of understanding of children that are not able to speak. One of the challenges faced is understanding how the child interacts with their classmates and how they learn; what different types of strategies are needed more for each child in the classroom. The obligation as an SNT is to be knowledgeable about the different types of disabilities to assure that it may be taught to any child who comes into the classroom.

As a special education teacher becoming able to communicate and understand the student is a very big accomplishment. Knowing that the child will need different tactics to learn, different ways are too teach the child in their own pace. Learn and study what the child likes, and how they learn more with that tactic. How would they be able to absorb the tea...

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