Contract - Behavior Disorder Classroom

I spent a day in a BD classroom at Mylan Park for part of my contract. I wanted to see different special education rooms because my future career may be in a very different setting then what I was placed in. The say started out with an IEP meeting for a student who was going to begin attending a new alternative school for elementary students. It was very interesting to see this because there are not many alternative settings for elementary students. They discussed her transition process to go there and come back to Mylan Park. The meeting took up most of the morning, then she had her planning and it was time for lunch. After lunch, her schedule got interrupted (surprise, surprise) with an issue involving a 2nd grade boy. We went down to address the issue and it took about an hour to resolve. When we returned to the room, there was a student and a teacher waiting from 3rd grade. There had been an issue with a boy asking a girl to lift her shirt and she was complying. She spoke with the student about what had happened and plans on addressing the situation again. It was reaching the end of the day and several students came to her room for assistance with homework or tests. They remained in her room for the rest of the day and then we walked them down to the bus. Although her day was mixed up and interrupted it was nice to see. This experience showed me how truly important it is for teachers to be flexible.