Changes to MAT SpEd?
TLDR: I thought I could do student teaching at the school where I am already employed and am being told that’s not the case and now I feel screwed.
I feel like I’m going crazy. When I first started I swear the program was a dual special education and general education Master’s. Now it’s just special education.
Under the original program the clinicals and student teaching were split between sped and gen ed. Now there’s only hours for sped with a requirement for secondary level hours that I don’t remember being there. I ignored all that and pushed through and now I’m up to my advanced clinical application and they are telling me I can’t do a collaborative placement but I do not remember reading that anywhere. The clinical experience facilitator sent me this module for “Intro to Clinical Experiences” that doesn’t seem at all familiar even though I know I did the module. Did they change it? It feels like they have changed things without communicating it and acting like that’s how it always was or am I totally losing my mind? I’ve only been in the program for a year