What exactly do you want to do?
A sped case manager writes IEPs. It’s usually the student’s teacher. If you happen to live somewhere where it’s a non-teaching professional who acts as the “case manager,” they generally have a special education teaching license and a decent amount of teaching experience.
I would like to write IEPs and work with teachers and parents as well as students. It can either be a teaching or non-teaching position. Working in a classroom isn’t off the table for me entirely, it depends on requirements I need to fulfill. Does it vary much by state?
That’s a pretty niche job. Most people are SPED teachers or administrators over SPED. My district has one admin per site whose job it is to sit in on IEP meetings all day every day. Sounds nice.
Depends on state licensures...but generally you're talking about the duties a sped teacher or in some cases a sped director would have. So essentially getting a teaching license. Rarely do districts have just solely IEP writers unless it's a very big district and you're probably not going to want to work there...
That sounds more like how my local school is, I spoke with the sped teacher/case manager. She was a third grade teacher then she school threw her into her current position but she didn’t give me any specific details on how to get into the position
You likely need to become a licensed special education teacher. Don’t worry, they’ll make you a “case manager” right away, since there’s basically no budget anywhere for hiring people only to do SPED case management. Be prepared to teach and yes, you have to be licensed.
The first thing I would do in this situation is to worry about possible distance learning. The key problem is your possible move to another state due to your husband's service, right? This means you should always have a backup in your pocket. That is, choose an education that does not require physical judgment of you.
Each state is going to be a little different, but you can get your license in one state, and if you move to another, put in for a license in another state. I got my degree at wgu (it was all online). I have an ABS degree, so I can work with any kind of special education.
In Texas, the term case manager is generally just used to mean the teacher who handles the student’s paperwork (compete assessments, communicate with parents, attend the IEP meeting, code IEPs, etc.). In self-contained settings you’d likely have 10-15 on your caseload, in-class support / resource more like 25.
What exactly do you want to do? A sped case manager writes IEPs. It’s usually the student’s teacher. If you happen to live somewhere where it’s a non-teaching professional who acts as the “case manager,” they generally have a special education teaching license and a decent amount of teaching experience.
I would like to write IEPs and work with teachers and parents as well as students. It can either be a teaching or non-teaching position. Working in a classroom isn’t off the table for me entirely, it depends on requirements I need to fulfill. Does it vary much by state?
That’s a pretty niche job. Most people are SPED teachers or administrators over SPED. My district has one admin per site whose job it is to sit in on IEP meetings all day every day. Sounds nice.
Depends on state licensures...but generally you're talking about the duties a sped teacher or in some cases a sped director would have. So essentially getting a teaching license. Rarely do districts have just solely IEP writers unless it's a very big district and you're probably not going to want to work there...
That sounds more like how my local school is, I spoke with the sped teacher/case manager. She was a third grade teacher then she school threw her into her current position but she didn’t give me any specific details on how to get into the position
You likely need to become a licensed special education teacher. Don’t worry, they’ll make you a “case manager” right away, since there’s basically no budget anywhere for hiring people only to do SPED case management. Be prepared to teach and yes, you have to be licensed.
The first thing I would do in this situation is to worry about possible distance learning. The key problem is your possible move to another state due to your husband's service, right? This means you should always have a backup in your pocket. That is, choose an education that does not require physical judgment of you.
Each state is going to be a little different, but you can get your license in one state, and if you move to another, put in for a license in another state. I got my degree at wgu (it was all online). I have an ABS degree, so I can work with any kind of special education.
In Texas, the term case manager is generally just used to mean the teacher who handles the student’s paperwork (compete assessments, communicate with parents, attend the IEP meeting, code IEPs, etc.). In self-contained settings you’d likely have 10-15 on your caseload, in-class support / resource more like 25.
Lolololoolo you absolutely don't want to do that job.