A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words! In Honor of Special Education Teachers Everywhere
Special Education Day is December 2nd, 2024. We extend a heartfelt thank you to all the special education teachers for your dedication, compassion, and tireless efforts. You inspire growth, celebrate every achievement, and create lasting impacts in your students' lives. The joy you find in helping students discover their unique strengths and overcome challenges with resilience makes every small victory feel like a huge success.
Thank you for sharing why being a special education teacher is important to you!
@calmMango9611
This is too sweet and thoughtful!š
Big ups to everyone in service, y'all are changing lives, quite literally!š
@calmMango9611
Thanks so much for posting this for us. I was a little confused at first as I use the term SEN, Special Education Needs teacher which I trained for. So, I did a little digging and thought this might be interesting information:-
The title for educators specializing in teaching students with disabilities varies across countries, reflecting cultural and educational system differences. Here are some common terms used worldwide:
United States: "Special Education Teacher" is the standard term. These educators work with students who have a wide range of disabilities and special needs.
United Kingdom: The term "Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teacher" is commonly used. SEN teachers often teach groups of around 12 students, each with different abilities and requirements.
Canada: Similar to the U.S., "Special Education Teacher" is widely used.
Australia: The term "Special Education Teacher" is prevalent.
New Zealand: Educators are often referred to as "Special Education Teachers" or "Learning Support Coordinators."
India: The term "Special Educator" is commonly used.
South Africa: "Remedial Teacher" or "Special Needs Teacher" are common terms.
Germany: The term "SonderpƤdagoge" (Special Pedagogue) is used.
France: Educators are referred to as "Enseignant SpƩcialisƩ" (Specialized Teacher).
Spain: The term "Maestro de EducaciĆ³n Especial" (Special Education Teacher) is used.
Japan: Educators are known as "ē¹å„ęÆę“ęč²ęå”" (Tokubetsu Shien KyÅiku KyÅin), meaning Special Support Education Teacher.
These titles reflect each country's approach to special education and the integration of students with disabilities into the educational system.
@MistyMagic I am so glad you liked the post. Thanks for sharing, all the different terms that are used. I am from the United States of America. We useĀ the term Special Education Teacher. We also use the term Teacher Consultant, which is a teacher who evaluates students, who might need more specialized services. Spec ed Consultant is someone who takes on some admin duties a long with seeing spec Ed students.Ā
Some Teacher Consultants specialized in an area. For example, some Teacher Consultants see only students who have a learning disability. Also, we have spec ed teachers who are also trained as school psychologists and school social workers, andĀ some take additional schooling, to become Admins. Some programs, are by disability, which means they only take students, with a particular disability. The spec ed teachers who are in those types of programs, cannot cross over. We have all kinds of special education programs as well. In some states, you can go to school, until age 21 and in some cases age 26. It just depends on the student and their needs. Some, students with disabilities do graduate high school, with a high school diploma, while others have a lot of medical, mental health, psycho-social, behavioral, communication, health issues, and the like, that it makes it difficult for them to get a high school diploma. So, in cases like that, they go to a spec school, and they try to teach them a skill. But some have to get government help, for which they do.Ā
I was able to graduate high school, but I do get government help, because of my disability I have other issues. I have a learning disability.Ā
@calmMango9611 congratulations on graduating, that is a great achievement. You know a lot about the United States system, thanks for sharing as I am sure that will help others in the USA.
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A second ago I didnāt know what Special Education was. I thought it meant different education, like different classes and things like that from the normal, standard everyday education classes that schools have/teach.Ā
But then I saw the following in the comment of @MistyMagic and got somewhat of an idea about it:
These educators work with students who have a wide range of disabilities and special needs.
To get more of an idea simply bc Iām curious about it, can anyone please specify what disabilities or special needs these students have? I would think that bc itās a school that itās school related needs like learning such as dyslexia, ADHD which I didnāt know was a learning disorder till just now. But are there any non school only needs or disorders that put students in Special Education???
I always felt bad for them bc during my school years, I always saw them being bullied, picked on, teased, laughed at, ignored, left out, uninvited/unwanted by most of the āregular edā students just bc they were in Special Education and the reasons why they were there. I tried being there for them to comfort them and everything but they actually just shoved me away and said to leave them alone. Itās obvious this reaction was out of anger that was directed at me but bc I didnāt cause their anger I knew they werenāt actually angry at me. Before leaving I said āIf thatās what you want, ok Iāll go no problem. If your mind changes, lmk.ā and walked away as they responded with āthank you.āĀ
Idk why people did that to people. Itās essentially people hurting their own species but for what purpose? It never helps them with anything even if they think it did.Ā