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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”.

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Tasks for “Handicapped Teacher”

Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.
Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social development.
Instruct students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and self-sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
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.
Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
Teach personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, and self-advocacy.
Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine students' strengths and areas of need.
Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
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.
Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
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.
Provide interpretation and transcription of regular classroom materials through Braille and sign language.
Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
Provide additional instruction in vocational areas.
Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.
Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.

Related Technology & Tools

Interactive whiteboards
Multimedia projection equipment
Video camcorders
Document cameras
Photocopying equipment
Alternative computer keyboards
Digital video cameras
Braille styluses
Page turners
Mouth operated joysticks
Laptop computers
Pencil compasses
Laminating equipment
Laboratory heating plates
Bunsen burners
Dissection scalpels
Portable oxygen equipment
Trackballs
Computer laser printers
Glass beakers
Portable communication devices
Wireless touch screen monitors
Foot operated mouse equipment
Jellybean switches
Emergency first aid kits
Teletypewriters TTY
Braille slates
Safety goggles
Reading pens
Safety gloves
Oral suction tubes
Audio tape recorders or players
Microphones
Head operated joysticks
Enteral feeding equipment
Video cassette recorders VCR
Sound switches
Tablet computers
Wheelchairs
Optical compound microscopes
Video magnifiers
Liquid crystal display LCD projectors
Eye controlled computer mouse equipment
Television monitors
Personal computers
Science activity kits
Desktop computers
Assistive amplification systems
Word prediction software
Talking calculators
Communication boards

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