Welcome!

Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to join me as I embark on a new adventure as a special education teacher!

This year I was hired as an elementary school co-teacher and then was moved into a different special education position. My new position is a difficult one, and new in the world of special education. I am now a redirection connection teacher, most often referred to as "redirection" or "redirect". Without going into the confusing details of my job description, basically I am on call to help with students who are in need of specialized support and redirection. This can be due to behavior issues or struggling in their academics to the point of needing some one on one support.

I will be honest, when I got the call of my position change I was freaking out. The school I was hired at is the school in which I completed my student teaching so I saw what happens on a daily basis and I was friends with the previous redirect teacher and saw how he was all over the place. Non-stop would be a understatement of how much work goes into this position. Then I started to put more thought into it, assessed my skill set and decided that I could totally rock this job!

Now I am super excited and have tons of ideas flowing! I decided it would be fun and helpful to document some of my ideas. While I started researching other ideas from teachers I discovered that there is not a lot of help or information in this area of special education and I waned to set this blog in motion for help to others who may find themselves in the same or similar situation as I found myself.