Dave,My husband shared this site with me and I got interested in it. I also was a sub, then I got a full time teacher aide position, working with children that had learning difficulties. Each student had a unique way of picking up a subject and when I was able to get their personal way down pat the rest of the year was fun. This year I am challenged with teaching a student who cannot talk, learns by touching and eye contact. It was scarry at first, and now I am looking for new ways to communicate with him and I and everyone observing us are amazed at how much he has accomplished. By the way a sub in rural central NY gets $50.00 a day.
'Good Luck.
[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I have taught several classes where some of the students had resource specialists right there in the room with them. Sometimes the students are pulled out for part of the class, and sometimes they stay the whole period. I am familiar with the "consulting role model" concept where the resource specialist identifies the learning style that works for the kid and then shows the teacher how to teach to it. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I have also had classes where the professional "disrupters" are catered to by resource specialists who take them elsewhere to teach the lesson for that day. One of those brats came back after about half a period and I could see that he was cocked and ready to disrupt the class. I gave him a look that would melt cast iron and told him to sit in his seat and be quiet. That was the last I heard from him for the rest of the hour. [img]/forums/images/icons/mad.gif[/img] It's sometimes an advantage to be an "unknown quantity" to these kids so you aren't locked into the routines that they use on their regular teacher. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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