Good move. If you could have just been the paper work teacher then
nothing wrong with that. And believe me just as in elementary
education high school special education has tons of paper work.
Just ask my wife. How many times was she doing IEP prep at home on
Sunday night until 11 pm. That is on top of all the hours spent at
work on one IEP. Sometimes she would have multiple IEP's due in the
same month.
She taught Moderate Severe and had many one on one assistants.
These children were taught survival skills as well as reading,
numbers, math, skill building. She did a cooking unit once a week
and the kids loved it.
The teaching was fine and she improved reading levels by actual
working at it. The paperwork for HS was too much. The teacher
needed to be teaching not filling out dozens of forms for the
county and relentless IEP meetings with parents.
One thing she did was always try to have the meeting during school
hours, not after school as those types of meetings can drag on and
on and suddenly it is 5 pm. Nope do them on your Prep period which
speeds things up.
Enjoy your time off. But if you did try the HS for a while then you
would know for sure that being retired is awesome!
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