adult education teacher

teaching assistant

teacher

special education teacher

Eastern-Suffolk-Boces

I spent several years working in this organization, and during that time, I had the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally. The role allowed me to build meaningful relationships with students and colleagues, and I found great fulfillment in the core purpose of the work. The dedication and passion of many of my peers were inspiring, and the impact we made together was truly rewarding.

However, over time, significant leadership changes created an increasingly challenging environment. Concerns related to staff morale and administrative decisions were increasingly difficult to deal with. There was a clear disconnect between decision-makers in higher administration and those working directly with students, leading to poor communication and a lack of meaningful oversight. Conditions for frontline staff were increasingly challenging, and despite raising concerns through the appropriate channels, meaningful improvements were very limited.

The culture shifted in ways that made it hard to align my personal and professional values with the organization’s direction. Witnessing students and colleagues face these challenges, coupled with leadership that often felt unresponsive and lacking accountability, was deeply disheartening. 

Leaving was not an easy decision, as I truly valued the work, my students, and the colleagues I served alongside. However, stepping away gave me the opportunity to prioritize my integrity and personal well-being, both of which were significantly impacted by the circumstances.

I believe this organization has the potential to thrive with reflective leadership and a renewed focus on supporting both staff and the core mission. My hope is that future changes will foster a healthier, more sustainable environment for those who continue the important work within this field.

Eastern Suffolk BOCES is a great place to work. The administrators were helpful and always professional. My colleagues were friendly and supportive. Overall, I had a great experience during my school year as an instructor at BOCES. The staff received consistent training and feedback. If you have a trade and teaching experience, you will enjoy helping students learn about their chosen careers. The students I was fortunate to work with were from many different school districts. They really enjoyed participating in the lessons. The training they received  helped them transition from the classroom to the law enforcement field. The interests of the students varied from both federal and local law enforcement to serving in the military. As an instructor, the time I spent with them was extremely rewarding. My duties varied from hands on training to learning about the law. I also found the students to be motivated and interested in learning about the requirements to enter into law enforcement. One of my students decided to  attend a forensics program at a college in NYC. I had another student join the United States Marine Corps and two students who were taking the NYPD and NYC firefighters exams. In conclusion, I highly recommend Eastern Suffolk BOCES as a wonderful place to work. If you are given an opportunity to teach at any of their locations, you will find the work enjoyable and interesting.

I was very fortunate to begin my teaching career as a student teacher at the Premm Learning Center. I was then offered a position as teacher assistant and, after a year and a half, a position as a full-time teacher at the Sayville Learning Center. Initially, I found a lack of support in dealing with emotionally disturbed students’ behavior but, after a few years, this was addressed with the implementation of crises intervention teams in each building. After a number of years at Sayville, I was given the wonderful opportunity to work as a curriculum teacher. I began working in the elementary school settings and then moved on to the middle school and eventually to the high school. I was very fortunate that ESBOCES had given me the opportunity to work with diverse populations of students, at various levels of education, and with many dedicated teachers and administrators. BOCES recognized my areas of expertise and put this to use by enabling me to write curriculum, apply for various grants for teacher resources, offer professional staff development workshops on diverse topics, offer presentations to the Tourette’s Association and to the BOCES Board of Directors, and to teach GED evening classes. After my retirement, I continued working part-time for five years as a liaison between BOCES and various school districts on the alternate assessment. 
ESBOCES gave me the best employment opportunity of a lifetime!

My job at Eastern Suffolk BOCES was an opening to a much bigger world in terms of the Educational field.  As a job coach I was able to assist each student grow to become a more productive member of society.  I would assist each student so that they could grow and advance in their job. I was also involved in the work environment, I spoke with supervisors and/or managers to see what they were looking for in new employees. I would then take that information and model that to each student making them ready for that particular job. My job was to accomplish the student's dream to become a member of the working class and to sustain that job as well. As a teacher assistant I was there for the teacher in any way they needed.  I was part of an 8-1-1 classroom with a total of 10 kids.  Our team worked well together, aways looking out for one another.  I was given a small group of students to teach in Social Studies and Science. I was able to create some lesson and teach lessons that were given to me.  We also had some students that had behavioral issues so I was trained in how to handle those situations as well.   Every day was different and that's what I love about teaching.  You can have a plan for the day but something may happen to interrupt that plan and you need to be able to be flexible, think on your feet, and that to me is incredible.

I work with young children 5 yrs -18 yrs. who are physically and mentally challenged. In the past five years, I have a lot more respect for the teachers of special education. I am a patient, loving, compassionate and caring individual that has learned to work as a team and rely on each other for mental and physical support. Each child brings you joy in a different ways whether it be their achievements of goals or to get up out of a wheelchair and starting walking. Their successes are yours to share. When they move up to another school you see what their parents see that you were a part of helping them get there. 

The hardest part of this job is the physical demands to keeping a child safe from themselves and others. It's difficult as a mother to know some children may never talk, walk, see or hear. I seem to know how to communicate with love and try to get them excited to be at school. They feel that and sometimes that's all they want is to know someone loves them.

When I began as a teacher of Private Investigations in the adult education program at Eastern Suffolk BOCES, I was hopeful that I would be able to impart my knowledge to the students who were looking into a career as a Private Investigator.  However the catalog was misleading from the beginning.  It gave them the indication that this one course was all they would need to become a licensed investigator in New York State.  I had arguments with management until they altered the catalog to advise potential students properly.  Then several students who did not bother to take the material I provided seriously and failed the in class tests complained to the Dean of students and I was lectured about how they had paid for their course and were expecting to get the certificate no matter what.  I advised management that I did not operate in that manner and they would either have to re-take and pass the tests or re-take the class later.  I was advised that after the class ended I would no longer be needed for further classes.

Disgusting, non informed, non caring admin, Those in charge knowingly make bad decisions, constant corruption using public money, who look the other way and allow discrimination, ganging up and such things like conspiracy building to do-gooders,
If you are smart, work hard, and don't or won't bobble your head, or turn your head to all of the wrongs, you have no future. You are considered a threat. STOP. Do not apply,
You must be criminal, do what you are told against your own conscience, can play stupid, lie, sware about others lies and flat out don't care. With these skills then you will have a bright future and be rewarded handsomely as you rise up the ladder,
Not to worry if you don't have the prerequisites just mentioned, you just need to be moldable and you will be a great success or amazing bottom kisser,

Because of my move out of state, it was with great regret that I had to leave my job at Boces. The environment was friendly. I got along well with my co-workers. The medical and dental benefits were good. I also appreciated working a school calendar which gave me flexibility to be with my daughter and offered me time to pursue my own business ventures. 
The hardest part- being that my job duties were mainly working one on one with a special needs (mostly Autistic) student, they could become quite aggressive at times. Injury was a possibility every day depending on the child's behaviors. However, the rewards of working with that population were incredible. 
The hourly salary was good although being only a 30 hour work week and paying union dues, it dwindled down quite a bit.

I worked at ESB for just over 6 years. I truly loved working there for the most part. Working with the special Ed population, there were times that I was concerned about being injured and I had been. It's just something to be aware of. I was very proud to be able to positively affect my students. 
The hours were great, the vacations time, summers off, snow days LOL and the benefits were good. I loved the staff as well. For me, it was a great job that I enjoyed. 
The negatives are the salary..it's not great
Risk of injury
No real advancement opportunities unless you go to college and become a teacher and the chances of that are slim
There are no raises outside of the contract which for people like me who put their all into the job, is a let down. 
Union dues are too high

** Note that the salary is based on a 30 hour week

This company provides a great program for students with needs.  I have a wide range of diversity in a typical day from answering phones, filing, entering new and existing students for enrollment, entering new staff applicants for review to hire, entering all cross contracts from school districts, processed all forms for student field trips, entered students attendance daily, attended faculty meetings and created meeting minute documents monthly and emailed it to the director of special education, filled out all paperwork for student suspensions and emailed to all principals and the director.  I love the dedication and involvement in innovative ways on how to make the program better that management has for the program.  There is a wide range of diversity in the workplace.  The most enjoyable part of the job is that the program is helping students in need.

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