>> Hi, I'm Marie Franklin, and I am a special educator
with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
So a student who may be very anxious, who has difficulty, school phobias,
has a lot of different factors that would make it difficult for them
to attend a classroom regularly, we would work with them.
There are students who have acting-out behaviors who are disruptive to the learning environment,
who have many, maybe, external factors that would preclude them from working their way
into a regular classroom until we get them to where they can do that comfortably and succeed.
You know, I like to come here early to prepare myself for the day because working with the type
of students that I work with sometimes it can be very challenging based
on how their day is going.
So I come in early and make sure that I have everything lined
up for what I feel I'm projecting for that particular day,
and I'm in three different subjects as far as the content area.
I'm in Social Studies, but I work in three different subjects.
For instance, I work in U.S. History, I work with students in Government classes
and in Modern World History, as well as teaching resource classes.
So the resource classes are specifically only those children who are in --
or students that are in the cluster program, and I -- they're typically on my caseload,
so I have a certain group of students that are assigned to me that I make sure
that I work with and have that rapport.
I make sure that I understand what I'm teaching in each class, what my co-teachers,
if I'm working with a co-teacher, what we're going over,
what subject matter we're going over, what lesson, what unit, so that I'm prepared to walk
in to help all students, because as a role, as a co-teacher when I'm in the mainstream,
I'm also responsible for the academic success for all students in there,
so if I know the material, then I know I can confidently help the students succeed,
and so I prepare myself for the lessons for the day to make sure that I'm ready.