Special Education Program Specialist

Q: What motivates you to work in the special education department and why?

A: What motivates me is because I wanna help students. Students who are in special education often need support and need help and they don't know how to get it. Families also need help, because coming to high school is the first time in their life that they have to pass classes and get credits so it's like a totally different ball game. The short answer would be that I like helping people.

Q: What are the biggest challenges you face working in special education? Why is this a challenge?

A: Communication, communication with general education teachers, communication with parents, and communication with students, it's a challenge because this is a large campus, and it's hard catching people to talk to you or to give you information and the amount of time you need it.

Q: What improvements would you like to see in the special education program?

A: I would say more classes, more courses, so the class sizes can get smaller so that can then give students more help who have special needs.

Special Ed.

Q: What motivates you to work in the special education department and why?

A: Growing up I had an uncle who's about 15 years older than me, he has Down syndrome, so I grew up around him. When I went to Fresno State I worked at a group home for adults who are developmentally disabled. Working with that population of people who have issues learning, living, and taking care of themselves is second nature to me, I don't have to put a lot of thought into it but I can see it as easy for me to adapt things for the students.

Q: What are the biggest challenges you face working in special education? Why is this a challenge?

A: The biggest challenge I would say is getting kids to advocate for themselves, even for general education kids who just sit in the back not doing anything just because they didn't understand an instruction. I can explain something 7 different ways if you need me to but I don't know if u need that help if u don't ask.

Q: What improvements would you like to see in the special education program?

A: I feel that our special education program here at Ridgeview is really good. Improvement-wise overall just getting our kids who are involved in our program more integrated, there's more events on campus. Then that goes back to the students needing to ask "How do I join this club?", "How do I join this sport?" so just again getting them to self advocate.

Special Ed.

Q: What motivates you to work in the special education department and why?

A: it started when I was a kid, I had a cousin around my age that was severely mentally and physically disabled so at a young age I learned certain things I couldn't do around him and it made me really empathetic towards kids in special education and I also worked at a group home before I started teaching and that also gave me the patience needed to work in the department I work in.

Q: What are the biggest challenges you face working in special education? Why is this a challenge?

A:The biggest challenge is the fact that everyday is different, you come to work with a gameplan and an idea of how the day is gonna go, but it doesnt always go that way. You get a lot of curveballs thrown at you throughout the course of a school year but the more expereince you have the easer it is to adjust to those days

Q: What improvements would you like to see in the special education program?

A:I would say more training for the newer teachers, more trainings either at the school site , or at the district level, to kind of help those teachers who may not have the amount of experience that other teachers have teaching in special education.

Special Ed.

Q: What motivates you to work in the special education department and why?

A: what motivates me is the feeling of helping a student or young person who really needs it. they may have difficulty and its a lot more gratifying to see them reach their goals because it is more difficult than it is for the average person.

Q: What are the biggest challenges you face working in special education? Why is this a challenge?

A: The biggest challenge is motivation, there is low motivation and there is a lot of distractions as well so it is easy to get off track and become off course on that student's goals, getting good grades, and being successful after school.

Q: What improvements would you like to see in the special education program?

A: I would like to see more one on one time for students who need more attention than your regular college prep and gate students. More one on one time would be ideal.

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