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Job Description
Teach secondary school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 25-2054.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 64,020.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 0.00
- Currently, there are 132,490 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Special Education Teachers, Secondary School”.
Also Known As…
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Teacher
- Special Education Teacher
- Special Education Resource Teacher
- Resource Teacher
- Learning Support Teacher
- Learning Disabilities Special Education Teacher (LD Special Education Teacher)
- Interrelated Special Education Teacher
- High School Special Education Teacher
- Exceptional Student Education Teacher (ESE Teacher)
- Career and Transition Teacher
- Vocational Training Teacher
- Vocational Trainer
- Visually Impaired Teacher
- Various Exceptionalities Teacher
- Transition Teacher
- TMH Teacher (Trainable Mentally Handicapped Teacher)
- Teacher of the Handicapped
- Special Education Work-Study Coordinator
- Special Education Science Teacher
- Special Education Math Teacher
- Special Education Itinerant Teacher
- Special Education Instructor
- Special Education Inclusion Teacher
- Special Education Administrator
- Special Day Class Teacher (SDC Teacher)
- SLD Inclusion Teacher (Specific Learning Disabilities Inclusion Teacher)
- Sign Language Teacher
- Severe Emotional Disorders High School Teacher
- Severe Disabilities Special Education Teacher
- Self-Contained Classroom Special Education Teacher
- Self Contained Unit Intervention Specialist
- SED High School Teacher
- Secondary Special Education Teacher
- Secondary School Special Ed Teacher
- Resource Specialist Teacher
- Resource Specialist Program Special Education Instructor (RSP Special Education Instructor)
- Resource Specialist
- Resource Center Teacher
- Remedial Reading, Math, or Other Subject Teacher
- Reading Specialist
- Physically Impaired Teacher
- Orthopedically Impaired Teacher (OI Teacher)
- Moderate Needs Teacher
- Mild Disabilities Teacher
- Mild and Moderate Disabilities Special Education Teacher
- MH Teacher (Mentally Handicapped Teacher)
- Mentally Retarded Teacher
- Mentally Impaired Teacher
- Lip Reading Teacher
- Life Skills Teacher
- Learning Specialist
- Learning Disabled Teacher
- Learning Disabilities Resource Teacher (LD Resource Teacher)
- Intervention Specialist
- Inclusion Special Educator
- In-Class Special Education Teacher
- High School Learning Support Teacher
- Hearing Impaired Teacher
- Handicapped Teacher
- Exceptional Children's Teacher (EC Teacher)
- Emotionally Impaired Teacher
- Emotional Support Teacher
- Emotional Disabilities Teacher
- Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Teacher (EBD Teacher)
- EMD Special Education Teacher (Educable Mentally Disabled Special Education Teacher)
- ED Special Education Teacher (Emotional Disability Special Education Teacher)
- Deaf Teacher
- Cross Categorical Special Education Teacher
- Collaborative Teacher
- Braille Teacher
- Blind Teacher
Tasks for “Behavior Specialist”
- Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
- Teach personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, and self-advocacy.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
- Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
- Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
- Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Provide additional instruction in vocational areas.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social development.
- Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine students' strengths and areas of need.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
- Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
- Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
- Instruct students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and self-sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
- Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
- Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
- Perform administrative duties, such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
- Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of handicapping conditions.
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
- Provide interpretation and transcription of regular classroom materials through Braille and sign language.
Related Technology & Tools
- Page turners
- Multimedia projection equipment
- Braille slates
- Assistive amplification systems
- Desktop computers
- Safety goggles
- Television monitors
- Alternative computer keyboards
- Photocopying equipment
- Mouth operated joysticks
- Tablet computers
- Reading pens
- Trackballs
- Word prediction software
- Video camcorders
- Sound switches
- Communication boards
- Computer laser printers
- Talking calculators
- Head operated joysticks
- Oral suction tubes
- Video magnifiers
- Eye controlled computer mouse equipment
- Glass beakers
- Audio tape recorders or players
- Braille styluses
- Wheelchairs
- Bunsen burners
- Liquid crystal display LCD projectors
- Optical compound microscopes
- Wireless touch screen monitors
- Interactive whiteboards
- Teletypewriters TTY
- Digital video cameras
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Laminating equipment
- Jellybean switches
- Dissection scalpels
- Laboratory heating plates
- Safety gloves
- Emergency first aid kits
- Pencil compasses
- Science activity kits
- Foot operated mouse equipment
- Document cameras
- Microphones
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Enteral feeding equipment
- Portable communication devices
- Video cassette recorders VCR
- Web browser software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Hand held spell checkers
- Microsoft Word
- Screen reader software
- Text to speech software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Office
- Screen magnification software
- Voice activated software
- Video editing software
- Email software