What does a preschool SEIT do?

Special Education Itinerant Teacher (SEIT)?

• Is anyone a SEIT Teacher. Do you enjoy this job. I was offered a job to be a SEIT and this will be my first full time job ever. I am a little nervous but yet excited. What insights can you give to me? Thanks

• Answer:

  I've worked as itinerant teacher for one year...and one year only. If you've ever wanted to travel 100% for work, this may be the job for you though. You often share a desk and feel as though you have no home of your own. Many people won't know who you are until Octoboer or later. Some will see you as an "accessory" for the school rather than a full-fledged staff member. The upside is this. Don't like a school? Fine then...you are only there once a week. Love a school? Talk to the principal. Tell him/her that you love it there and should something become availalble, you would certainly consider it. (How I am where I am now.) If one is not provided for you, consider a good rolling cart. Get a small bag of more costly things that would needed at every school - jump drives, etc. Transfer the small bag to the larger, school specific bag. Yes, that may cause to you purchase two staplers, but the organization is worth it. Take only the school's files into the school. You never know when someone who knows someone will see it. Always, always, always... make good friends with the secretary. You will have a lot of "building" questions and this will help. Program your phone numbers into your cell phone with names of contacts, principals, secretaries so that you can keep it straight at the beginning. Purchase a really good DayMinder for detailed notes with a to-do list. Keep a separate journal of what you did that day. You won't remember past two weeks with all the moving around. In a bind with a supervisor or parent? Pull it out and you'll look as if you are on top of things always. EDIT - Itinerant means that the teacher moves from school to school. It may be 2.5 days at Smith Elementary and 2.5 days at Jones Middle. It might be mornings @ Washington High and afternoons at Smith Elementary. You get the idea. They are fully-licensed special education teachers, but principals (or county office) work together to combine their half-time positions to form a full-time position to increase their field of applicants.