Do you have a career in special education?

Question

If so, maybe you can help me out please?

**I'm specifically looking into mute/deaf children. **

What are the pros and cons?
Is there a demand for special educators on an international level?

Answer 1

As someone else as already answered the Cons are an especially high burn out rate along with the politics of people treating you like a babysitter. I am a special ed teacher and boy have I gotten into it with people who are trying to screw my students out of what they need. These are some more of the cons. But the Pros are yes there is a need for teachers but also the reward of being there for the kids. The kids are the best part. The love, the humor, the drama, the fun that they bring to your life is a beautiful thing. I think that the pro's definitely beat out the con's. I have been teaching for 4 years now and though I have my day's... for the most part I love my job.

Answer 2

Correction: the answerer that said the correct term is hard of hearing is right but also at the same time wrong. Each state and sometimes even each school district has a different way of stating the same disorder. Where I'm from it is people with hearing impairments. Written always in person first language (person then impairment)

Pros:

Tons of jobs
Making a difference
Being creative
Great schedule (holidays and weekends off, etc.)
Better pay than gen. ed. teachers
Working with caring dedicated people
Many ways to move up in the career field (curriculum, teacher consultant, assisstive technology, administration, research, college professor
Putting a smile on your student's faces
Celebrating your student's successes
etc.

Cons:

High burnout rate
Less pay than many other careers
Staff members you have to work with that don't really care
Following government guidelines which restrict you in the classroom
Fighting for your students to get the services they need
At least 5 years of school to get your bachelors
Long hours during the school year, taking your work home with you, when you are a teacher you are in a way always at work
Difficult parents
etc.

Answer 3

Pro-there is a shortage of Special Ed Teachers
Con-the burn out rate if high

I'm not sure about an international need as it appears that other countries are not as advanced with special needs children as the US is...with the UK and Australia being exceptions.

Answer 4

get your MS in Deaf Education if you want to specialize in deaf children. But check your states' No Child Left Behind law b/c a MS may not be enough you may need to have an area of specialization such as science, math,.. etc etc
BTW these kids are Deaf not hard of hearing.... but whatever you do they are NOT hearing impaired

Answer 5

Pro: You're in demand
My suggestion: Specialize...Become a Speech Langauge Pathologist. They are in high demand and you can work in a variety of different settings such as in oral/aural schools for the deaf and hard of hearing. If you don't like one job..move to the next as to prevent burn out! Good luck!

Answer 6

I will agree with the others, the cons include the burnout rate. The pros include the fact that you should not have difficulty finding a job as well as job security. My spouse is in the military and whenever we move to another state or country I always have several job offers

Answer 7

For Deaf/Hard of hearing...which is the correct name for the field you are interested in...there are some jobs...there a few special schools around just for kids w/ this disability....there are some programs just for them in regular schools (special class). More and more though, they are served in regular classrooms and there will be a DHH teacher who goes around to the different schools who serve DHH students checking with the kids, there interpreters and the teachers and seeing if he/she can offer supports/help, etc. So, the DHH teacher is often considered a consulting type teaching job. I have been teaching spec. ed. for a long time now (originally considered DHH, but went with mental disabilities instead).........you don't have to succomb to burnout.....burnout is almost always NOT the kids...it can be the paperwork, the administration, the parents.....I have ALWAYS enjoyed the kids......if your job sucks, change job locations or the type of special ed you are in...don't quit spec. ed all together...there's plenty of variety available for spec. ed teachers!

Answer 8

I would say that one draw back to working with this particular population is that your job would be changing as the population changes. Right now, with so many babies getting cochlear implants the job of working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing has become more about training them to use the hearing that they now have with cochlear implants and translating in the classroom for those who still use ASL

Answer 9

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