Special ed?

Question:If wanted to become a special ed teacher what all would i have to do?



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Depending on what state you want to teach in, you will need a bachelors or a masters degree. You also need to get a background check, pass the PRAXIS licensing process, and find a job. After that the fun begins.
All special education teachers in the United States are required to have a bachelor's degree and obtain a teaching license through an accredited teacher preparation program. However, many states are now also requiring a master's degree in special education to teach special education at the elementary and secondary levels. To aid you in the process of earning a master's or doctorate degree, there are numerous online special education degree programs that can help you become certified with more scheduling flexibility than a traditional campus program.

Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Agatha Christie, and Robert Kennedy are a few prime examples of influential people that suffered from learning disabilities, and it is estimated that learning disabilities affect as many as 15 percent of otherwise able schoolchildren. Understandably, the demand for graduates of special education degree programs is quite high (almost half a million instructors in 2004), and with better diagnostic tests and increases in federal funding for students with learning disabilities, the demand for special education teachers will continue to grow in the coming years.

Whether you intend to work at the kindergarten and elementary level or the secondary level, the US Department of Labor cites $45,000 as the median income for this occupational field. However, due to faster than average projected growth in the coming years, it's quite possible that salary figures for special education instructors will rise faster than salary brackets for other occupations.
You would have to go to college like the other teachers because you are a teacher like them but you wouldn't teach hard things like them.
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As Beamer has said already you would need a minimum of a Masters degree but one of the most important decisions you will have to make is which part of the disabled population do you want to work with?? The severely developmentally disabled? The physically disabled? The deaf? The Blind? Children with things like dyslexia, dyscalulia (the math equivalent of dyslexia) dysgraphia(the writing equivalent of dyslexia) and other things like HAAD or HA or ADD or PDD there are a lot of different types of learning disorders and you have to find out about each one and figure out what you're emotionally equipped to handle, both for your self and your students. There is also a difference in teaching for someone who deals with very young children and children who are school age, junior high, and high school. I would hope that you do go into the special education field they really need teachers for that field. It is going to be one of the most needed fields in education in the next 10-20 years.
There are other ways to be a "teacher" without going to college. I work for a program that is a non-profit organization through the state(?). You aren't actually called a teacher, but in all reality, you teach. You are assigned one or two people/kids that you work with on a semi-daily to daily basis. They have certain goals that must be worked on and it is your job to teach these goals. You do have to take some training classes and a background check is mandatory. You must be comfortable around special needs people and have the patience of a saint. It may not pay as much as a college degree job would pay but either way, you will never be rich doing this kind of work except rich in life experiences and making an impact, no matter how small, in another person's life. It's just another option.

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