>> My name is Amanda Calhoun, and I'm a
high school special education administrator
at Lancaster Catholic High School.
I have the opportunity both to
be an administrator at the school
where I help with policy and curriculum.
But I also have the opportunity to teach and
co-teach in a learning support environment
for students grades nine through twelve.
A normal day for me, I'm at school
around 7:15 a.m. And that's usually met
with meeting with a lot of people.
It's you get in, you're talking to teachers,
students, and some parents depending.
And right away, you are just answering questions
helping people out doing whatever you can.
We then start our day.
We've got homeroom and then
nine periods of classes
where we have students every single period.
I work with a co-teacher in my classroom.
And depending on the day sometimes we will have
our senior internship students in twice a day.
My co-teacher and I go and teach other
classes including religion and theology
and really it's just kind
of, it's not predictable.
And that's what I like about it.
The students bring in their work or teachers
bring down work that they want students
to maybe have extra practice on or any
accommodations I might need to make
such as giving extended time
or rewording exam questions.
So, really there's not a formalized
written curriculum for my learning support.
For my school to work students, I have a handful
of seniors who go out and four out of five days
of the week they are at an internship in
a career field that they really enjoy.
And then that other day of the week they spend
their morning with myself or my co-teacher
and we're teaching about career skills
like communication and career writing
and interviewing and those types of things.
So, it's really different day to day.