Human+Relations+Skills


 * // “Michelle communicates well with the students and staff in the building. She is open to constructive criticism and is more than willing to learn from others.” //
 * -Dan Kleikamp, Nah Tah Wahsh 2nd Grade Teacher ** ||

As a special education teacher, it is extremely important to communicate and work well with others that are involved with the students' day to day lives. At the end of each day, the general education teacher and I communicate with each other about what the students did for work and how their behavior was. Periodically I communicate with the social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists that work with the students to discuss progress made and issues of specific students. I am also in direct contact with the reading coach and math coach weekly. I go to them for ideas and resources for a lesson and they help me if I can't come up with an idea on my own. I will continue to do this in every special education setting I'm in, so everybody working with the students are on the same page.

I feel it is very important to communicate on a professional level with my peers in the school system. It is called a system because everybody needs to work together in order for it to work, and communication is the number one step in working together.