I am an elementary school teacher with 18 years of special education experience and have 12 years working with elementary age students. The grade levels I have taught are first, second and third. My experience with special education students ranged from six to eighteen year olds and four of those years were spent teaching in a residential treatment center in Cleveland, Ohio.I had a unique opportunity to complete my student teaching in Nogales, Arizona. I wanted to challenge myself in a comp.