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