The students with special needs do everything that the others do at their own level, and you accept their finished product as you would anyone else's. Yes, at the beginning of the year we met almost every day. Now it's as the need arises. A lot of it is informal, you know, what happened today, how's it going. I guess because I've been teaching for so long, the support team is valuable to me in terms of making appointments with outside resources.
Experience is really the best teacher.
I sometimes think of this as a community service. These are the children often that don't stay home even when they're sick. Well, you have to think, the parents have this child every day forever and ever. I'm only going to have that child for about 200 days of my life. Because if not society is going to have the parent to take care of too.