Why I Want to be a Special Education Major

While many areas in education are experiencing teacher shortages the retention of special education teachers in particular is a major concern in many schools across the country. ... It has long been studied as to why teachers leave the field of special education. ... In California, 36% of special education teachers are uncertified. ... One of the major difficulty special education teachers face is unmanageable caseloads. ... I have presented data to document the critical shortage of teachers in special education, as well as numerous suggestions for enhancing retention and decreasing burnout of...

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After I finished the questions above I felt I still wanted to pick her brain more. ... So I continued with some of the questions from the Special Education Teacher section. 1. ... Sometimes the special needs children can be a little trying in some aspects but everybody is an individual and you have to understand why they are acting the way they are. ... The fact that this is a learning experience for students who plan to major in Education and not an experiment or something that's trying to bash "retarded" people. ... I feel that I learned more about how I want to be and what it might ...

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I really want to become a physical education teacher after getting my Bachelors degree. The reason I want to be a physical education teacher is because I want to demonstrate and explain to students the importance of fitness. ... I really want to change that trend. That is why I want to push really hard to get a victory and success in what I do for my life and career. ... The biggest reason why I want to make sure that many kids can hear my knowledge about any sport and other problems teens might have in their life's not regarding sports. ...

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Remember the days when there was that one special teacher you could always count on. ... Why can't we live in those times again today, in the new millennium? With the percentage of children that need up close and personal attention from great teachers, I know that many people may wonder why we must remember the times when we had loving, caring, certified, teachers. ... That is another problem in the education system today. ... In ten years I do not want to remember the times, I want to live in the time. ...

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Similar to my hometown, Evanston is located in a suburban area close to a major metropolis. ... Something at Northwestern that I consider special and beneficial to me is the relationship between students and faculty and the active collaboration among the students. ... I am looking forward to an intense academic environment since I have experienced the laid back learning environment in California. ... Since then, Northwestern has been my top choice for pursuing my college education. I hope to become a second generation Wildcat in my family. ...

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Just imagine having more than one child, one is special needs, and you want to send them to private school. ... "Most private schools do not have special education programs or teachers trained to work with that student population, so therefore they do not have to accept children with special needs. ... Why? ... Needless to say, I feel special needs students would be better cared for and children that would like to play sport would have a better chance at a public school. ... With that being said, "According to a major study from the National Center for Education Statistics, public school te...

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One of the major problems that the US educational system has is that the people are not treated equally in education. ... We all wonder why America is slowly falling behind other nations of the world academically. I believe it's in part to the system being a little too easy. ... This journal and other books will be open for the students 12+ to be able to read if they want to further their education. ... The teacher will be considered the major mother figure to the students. ...

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Martin, an aviation pioneer organized a company around a airplane construction business and made it a major airframe supplier to U.S. military and commercial customers (Lockheed Martin, 2002). ... His achievements as a leader in the development of major space programs and large ground data processing systems, earned him a promotion to vice president in 1985 and a promotion to division vice president and assistant general manager in 1987. ...

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In this paper, I will give the reader more knowledge about mental retardation and how it is still viewed as a social problem today. ... Prior to the 18th century little was known about mental retardation, no one really knew who these people with special needs were, why they acted like they did and above all they did not know how they should be treated. ... In the book entitled Mental Deficiency The Changing Outlook by Alan Clarke and Joseph Berg, it states that the origin of special education occurred in Europe in the early 1800's. It has been stated in Mental Retardation that special edu...

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