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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
- Behavior Specialist
Tasks for “Blind Teacher”
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
- Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
- Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
- Provide additional instruction in vocational areas.
- Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
- Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Instruct students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and self-sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
- Perform administrative duties, such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
- Provide interpretation and transcription of regular classroom materials through Braille and sign language.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.
- 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.
- Teach personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, and self-advocacy.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
- Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
- Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social development.
- Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
- Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.
- Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
- Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of handicapping conditions.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
Related Technology & Tools
- Document cameras
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Talking calculators
- Trackballs
- Computer laser printers
- Desktop computers
- Wheelchairs
- Personal computers
- Wireless touch screen monitors
- Emergency first aid kits
- Dissection scalpels
- Interactive whiteboards
- Television monitors
- Liquid crystal display LCD projectors
- Audio tape recorders or players
- Video magnifiers
- Head operated joysticks
- Jellybean switches
- Safety goggles
- Page turners
- Laminating equipment
- Assistive amplification systems
- Tablet computers
- Laptop computers
- Foot operated mouse equipment
- Bunsen burners
- Portable communication devices
- Mouth operated joysticks
- Digital video cameras
- Alternative computer keyboards
- Laboratory heating plates
- Enteral feeding equipment
- Sound switches
- Science activity kits
- Pencil compasses
- Teletypewriters TTY
- Safety gloves
- Oral suction tubes
- Microphones
- Communication boards
- Eye controlled computer mouse equipment
- Glass beakers
- Braille slates
- Braille styluses
- Word prediction software
- Video camcorders
- Multimedia projection equipment
- Reading pens
- Photocopying equipment
- Optical compound microscopes
- Video cassette recorders VCR
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel
- Text to speech software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Voice activated software
- Email software
- Video editing software
- Screen reader software
- Screen magnification software
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Hand held spell checkers