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Today, many special needs students who were confined to a classroom with other students considered disabled are able to attend school in a mainstreamed. That means in a regular class. However, some may still need assistance in one form or another Therefore, to assist you in educating the special needs child you may be working with a specialist in your classroom. This will vary from a Teacher's Assistant with an associates degree, to a PhD expert in ESE. It may be someone who signs for a deaf student, a 'shadow', or a teacher who specializes in working with students with physical disabilities. Regardless of their degree, or specialization, they will be there to help your student(s) succeed.

In your early days of school new teachers should seek out whoever they will be working with and Find out who they are with whom they will be working. If it is a physically disabled student, perhaps they may need the child's desk close to the door. Ask them if they have the students Education Plan, a document stating the accommodations that must be met for the student (See Chapter 7). Maybe a desk with the chair attached will not be suitable and you will need to find one with the detached chair. They may need to be seated by the door or near the front of the room. Perhaps the specialist would appreciate a chair placed near the student(s) so they may sit and work with them closely. Not only will the specialist appreciate your forethought, it will save you from scrambling to provide appropriate accommodations for one student while 28 others look on.

A word to the wise, middle schoolers do not look on for long -if there's not something going on specifically engaging them, they will create it. Do everything you can including making sure all your students are appropriately accommodated beginning the very first day.
Guidance

Middle School Guidance counselors' responsibilities vary from district to district and school to school. But in a nutshell, they have the distinct challenge of acting as a confident and consultant to an age group of individuals who are growing faster physically, emotionally and hormonally than any other time in their lives. They see more drama in their offices then Cecil B. DeMille would if he directed Days of Our Lives. The act as mediators, brawl interventionists, social workers, and the list goes on and on.

Guidance will support a classroom teacher in many ways. Among the most important of those roles are keeping teachers up to speed on those students who may be facing challenges that affect their academics or classroom behavior and as a liaison in parent/teacher conferences. Guidance counselors are up on the social and educational services that are offered for the children in your county and often will refer those students in need. They can assist in presenting instructor's concerns to parents including anything from excessive absences to lack of homework completion to signs of depression.

Guidance counselors must document all interactions with students and parents. Staying on top of your daily paperwork will assist them. For example, if a student is missing more than the average days of school, and the teacher is not keep accurate attendance records, the task of contacting and investigating the issue becomes more time consuming as the counselor will have head out in pursuit of the information she should already have on her desk.
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