Problem in special needs instruction, too much prep work, and these surrogate instructors are still paid too low, and a lot of them are, dropping out of special needs education, leaving the special needs students without the instructors who are trained in special needs education to teach them, this is, a vicious cycle! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Too Much Stress, Too Many Tasks Needed Managing, the Wages Had Been Frozen for Thirty-Two Years on End, the Department of Education is Thinking of Adding More Pays to the Tasks Needed to Get Completed in the Classroom Setting, to Reduce the Teacher to Student Ratio
In recent years, the shortages of surrogate instructors are worsening, many believed that this was, expected, that the shortages of instructors are mostly from the technology, and science courses, but in actuality, it's the special education department that is experiencing this the hardest. The special needs instructors told, "when there's a shortage of surrogate instructors, it is even worse in special education," primarily due to the enormous amount of paperwork, high stress, but there's not the pay rate to the professional educators that they deserved, the wages had been static for thirty-two years continually, even the formal instructors who can't be fired in special education are quitting, let alone, the surrogate instructors of special needs students with an annual turnover rate.
The special needs instructor, Lin told, that there's a shortage of surrogate special needs instructors, and most of the instructors would select the schools closest to their homes, and applied for the position of instructors by subjects or homeroom instructors, and a lot of the surrogate instructors without certifications in special needs education would also consider general education first. There were the uncertified special needs instructors who are willing to stay on for another term, but in the end, the instructor had decided to teach the regular class, as a homeroom instructor, the reason being, working in special needs education, there would be a ton of I.E.P. meetings at the end of the semester, and there's the heavy work of psychological evaluation of the special needs students, an instructor had to write seven to eight individualized education plans to customize the lessons for the special needs students, and all of these are not the contents of regular education.
Currently, there's an added $1,800N.T. per month for the special needs education instructors, which hadn't been adjusted for thirty-two years on end, and there's only the six hundred dollars N.T. for the teachers in special eds without the certifications to teach special ed.
The chair of the All-Education Special Needs Commission, Chung said, the incentives are really low, that for the surrogate instructors who didn't get trained in special needs education, special needs would NEVER be considered, because there's bigger challenges, and the paperwork is also, several times of the regular school instructors'. "If I'm a surrogate instructor, why would I want to get into this huge mess?"
The Department of Education told, that it'd already filed the requests to the Executive Department, to adjust the pay rate for the workload of the special needs instructors, and had lowered the student to teacher ratio of special needs classes annually, and using the bonus programs, to encourage the local governments to hire the formal special needs instructors.
So, I mean, why would you want to be a surrogate instructor in the special needs department, IF you can make just as much, but without the nitty gritty of doing those, I.E.P.s for the special needs students individually, after all, this is not a pay-by-the-hour-rate gig, I mean, if the system of pay is by the hour, then, nobody will QUIT, but it isn't, and these surrogate instructors of special needs education is having it hardest, and they're all, dropping out one by one, which means, that the special needs students won't get the quality of education that they deserve!
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