High School Special Education Administrator, Lancaster Catholic High School

>> 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.