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Copeland said:
Why get hung up on that? He helps teach our kids, no need to get triggered mate
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Fat Jesus said:
I was a Teachers aide for 6 years.
Helping kids with special needs.
Best job ever. 12 weeks paid leave every year and really rewarding working with them.
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I always wished I had trained as a special education teacher. Preparing work for 5 classes was an arduous task. I envied the specialist teachers and aides who were in the room on a one on basis. But I got into student welfare which got me out of the classroom.
 

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TheGreatGrundy said:
I always wished I had trained as a special education teacher. Preparing work for 5 classes was an arduous task. I envied the specialist teachers and aides who were in the room on a one on basis. But I got into student welfare which got me out of the classroom.
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Awesome TGG. Yes the teachers work was much harder. Working most nights, preparing, homework correction.
I used to help the teachers with all that stuff during the day or coming in early mornings. To make their life a little easier.

I also did all the first aid which kept me really busy.
The kids with special needs are integrated into normal primary schools nowadays.
Around 30 of them in a school of around 300.
Pascoe Vale North Primary.

Many of the teachers from there are still my friends.
 
TheGreatGrundy said:
I always wished I had trained as a special education teacher. Preparing work for 5 classes was an arduous task. I envied the specialist teachers and aides who were in the room on a one on basis. But I got into student welfare which got me out of the classroom.
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These days we plan collaboratively, so that by the time you need the work, someone has created it, about 1/6 of the time it needs to have been you (full disclosure for me it is 1/2 to 1/3 of the time). Also sometimes the work kinda sucks and you need to fly on the seat of your pants another percentage of the time. Still, I haven't had to prepare individually for five classes for a long time
 
Ingy said:
Well, I can only claim 21. But I value the contribution of a quality aide. Then there are certain others who I'd prefer weren't in the room
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When I taught in a country school, we had an aide of whom my old HOD rather unkindly but all too accurately said: 'I didn't know you had to have special needs in order to be a special needs aide?!"
 
Ingy said:
These days we plan collaboratively, so that by the time you need the work, someone has created it, about 1/6 of the time it needs to have been you (full disclosure for me it is 1/2 to 1/3 of the time). Also sometimes the work kinda sucks and you need to fly on the seat of your pants another percentage of the time. Still, I haven't had to prepare individually for five classes for a long time
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You're lucky. We didn't even know how to spell collaboration, let alone what it meant.
 
TheGreatGrundy said:
I reckon my spelling has deteriorated with age. I become very aware of it when confronting the squiggly lines when typing and texting. I also appreciate my newly acquired inadequacies being highlighted before hitting the post or send button.
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Sorry, my post wasn’t in reference to your spelling.
 
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