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By Tammy

Suzy,

Here's some information for you and I hope that it helps. As far as where the SPED teacher works with their students, it depends on whether your school supports inclusion. They all should, but not necessarily.
If you can work in the classroom with students that's great. Follow along with what the regular classroom is doing, only make the modifications necessary for your student/s to succeed. If you can't, then the RR is the place to be. As far as curriculum. You should be working on their IEP goals. If they are reading at a 2nd grade level,for example, that's what you work on with them,

skills at that grade level. You can use your school district's curriculum to help you plan. For example, what are the expected outcomes for a second grade reader? Work on those skills. For something like writing, I try to have my students complete some of the same types of assignments that the regular classroom is doing. If I have a 4th grader and the regular classroom is writing a personal narrative, I would have my students do the same thing, only the expectations would be lower because they are working at a different level. This helps if the school collects portfolios on students. This way you can be sure that all of the special ed students have the similar types of "evidence of learning" in their portfolio. The difference is that they may have a modified version of the classroom assignment.

I hope this helps! Good Luck!