Pros
Flexible absences or vacations, 1 hour lunches, flexible hours of start time, no behavior management problems.
Cons
The 12 month position with little to no days off. Open enrollment of IEP students is year long and never closes. Your IEP caseload is never maxed at 28 which is the California legal limit it averages 34-36 students. The IEP’s coming from other schools are always overdue and triennel IEP’s. There is no support and you act as two sped teachers because they can’t keep sped teachers staffed. The student’s eligibility is mostly ED (emotionally disturbed)and they take students who were barred from public districts. They enroll sped students and don’t tell you so you have to track the students and their IEP’s down. The micromanaging is excessive and if you make mistakes they will be documented for your disadvantage. If you make a minor mistake on IEP’s you will be amending them multiple times till they are perfect and they will check your IEP writing systems to see if you are working. You’re expected to manage schedules, hold IEP’s, hunt down service providers, audit, create schedules, manage an over maxed caseload with little to no time to write IEP’s. This has by far been more worst experience as a Special Education Teacher. The sped lead stated that sped teachers last only 1-1.5 years then quit…there is a reason for that because you are burn out and under supported then blamed when you can’t keep up with your work load.