Being a teacher is great, but this workplace is frustrating - Teacher Springfield City Schools Employee Review

The school that I work at is only 8 minutes away. We have a great team of 3 paraprofessionals and 1 teacher in the room o f 8 students. We work well together. We all have our role in the classroom that helps transitions work smoothly.

We have a very difficult, stressful room this year. Our students frequently scream and sometimes cry. Our students are a range of disabilities, including Autistic, and extreme behaviors. We have one student that we have to watch carefully full-time because she dashes out the door and down the hall very fast.

Compensation and benefits. They pay the most in Springfield.

Barely any plan time and whatever you have plan time is taken up in behaviors, meetings and personal development that is not apply to you. You are expected to adhere to a general education curriculum, but you have no time to adapt it and then children with severe special needs must take formative assessments on the curriculum. There is no supervision and you are often left on your own and expected to complete a mountain of work that you will never complete meanwhile, you’re fighting behaviors because you’re struggling teaching your children, basic communication skills, and basic behaviors with no support.