How To be Special Education Teacher

Getting Started

1. Word qualified.You need two things: A State Teaching certification and (since NCLB was approved) status as a highly qualified teacher in the subjects that you plan to teach. Each country has its own guidelines for teaching certification and HQ. Please contact your state with the Ministry of Education (or a similar service) for specific guidelines.
* Although it varies, the following will be needed for the certification: A four-year degree in special education or a diploma in four years a different subject, with a master's degree in special education. (If you have a degree in four years a different subject than education, many countries can be an emergency or temporary certificate, so you can learn while earning your certification in Special Education.)
2. Find an appropriate university or college with a program in Special Education. Public universities often just as well as private colleges, if not better in some circumstances, in preparing you for working in a public school.
3. Take as many as possible electives in reading and mathematics. Special education students are almost always integrated into the regular classroom english and mathematics. This gives you a better picture of their needs. Reading instruction is also of crucial importance in the elementary grades.
4. Look around for other opportunities. If your degree does not also ensure that you are highly qualified, check whether your options. Each state has usually two or three pleas to the headquarters. The most direct option seems a Praxis II exam if you feel it acceptable.

Tips

• Continue your education where possible. The willingness to continuously improve your understanding of the issues that you learn and the method of instruction is what will give you an excellent teacher.
• While taking courses, sure to learn as much as possible about reading, writing, mathematics, special education curriculum, teaching styles and learning styles.
• Self-confidence is important, you must at all times to emit an aura of that everything under control, even if you just want to run away and cry.
• Respect is earned. While you will be able to detect any impact on your position, good education will only take place if you respect your students.
• In challenging situations (and there will be much), keep your cool, it is easily lost.
• The children can and will try anything to throw you out of balance, so have a plan to act before it happens.
• Choose your battles, some conflicts are just not worthwhile to join in. It will only lead you and your students and derail the classroom.
• You have some great moments that will make you wonder how you ever could have considered anything but education.
• Always on the preparation of your lessons. Boredom children are noisy children.
• Always be prepared for the unexpected. Could it be that you the best lesson in the world planned, but sometimes half the class is clueless to the concept and everything you have to adapt.
• Make sure you know, to identify and correct use of grammar. Nothing looks worse than a teacher who can not play and punters well, even the students do not know the difference.
• Greet your pupils every morning to read their ballots before the school day begins. If necessary, hug each of them. At least give each of them each a high five and tell them you are glad that they are there. That is perhaps the only positive contact with them have the whole day.

Warnings

• The special education is not for everyone, it takes a lot of patience and then you are ready for anything.
• You are not the kids' friend. Relationships can be understood. Be kind to your students, but keep a distance.

Education For Scientists and Engineers

Business Week has an articles discussing what business would like to see from graduates, Biotech’s Beef:

The problem is a disconnect between what universities are teaching and what biotech wants. “The focus of academia is getting basic and theoretical knowledge in place,”
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There are several weaknesses. First, recent grads lack the technical knowledge to carry out applied research in areas that straddle engineering, math, and computers. Second, job candidates have little awareness of what the Food & Drug Administration is looking for when it considers whether or not to approve a drug. Recent grads simply aren’t familiar with issues such as quality control and regulatory affairs.

This general idea is not new. But, as always (and probably more so if the nature of what is needed is changing faster today than in the past) the changing environment does require universities (and students, at least those that want to work in industry) to adapt.

But with H-1B quotas filling up earlier every year, Invitrogen has chosen to do more drug development in Japan, China, and India. It may also open facilities in Korea and Singapore, says Rodney Moses, Invitrogen’s vice-president of talent acquisition. Compensation in China and India is lower than in the U.S., but that’s not what motivates the move offshore, says Moses. “If the talent is located in Singapore, it’s just easier for us to go there.”

U.S. colleges take the problem seriously. State university systems in California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere are adding more industry-oriented classes.

MRSA Vaccine Shows Promise

Superbug vaccine ’shows promise’

A vaccine to guard against hospital superbug MRSA is a step closer, according to scientists. US researchers have developed a vaccine that protected mice from four potentially deadly strains of MRSA.
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The team looked for a vaccine using a technique called “reverse vaccinology”, which builds on recent genetics advances.

It involved sifting through the genome of Staphylococcus aureus to hunt for proteins on the microbe that might spark the body’s immune system into action, producing protection against the bacteria.

The team identified four proteins that prompted a strong immune response, making them good targets for vaccines.

WARNING for Bacteria in Food

Food-borne bacteria evolving, becoming more dangerous by Elizabeth Weise:

The evolution of ultra-dangerous versions of common food pathogens with which humans have coexisted for millennia. E. coli lives in the guts of most mammals. Almost all forms are harmless; some are actually necessary for health. It wasn’t until the 1970s that a deadly version — O157:H7 — emerged that causes kidney damage and death.

Two forms of the salmonella bacteria,Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella newport, have evolved to resist most of the antibiotics that doctors are comfortable giving to children, says Patricia Griffin, who studies food-borne and diarrheal illnesses at the CDC.

Both are most common in cattle and other farm animals but are also turning up in fresh produce.