Special Education Teachers

Key Tasks

• •Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities, exceptional intellectual gifts, or specific problems of language and culture
• •Planning, organising and implementing special programs to provide remedial or advanced tuition
• •Administering various forms of assessment and interpreting the results
• •Teaching basic academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to hearing and sight impaired students
• •Devising instructional materials, methods and aids to assist in training and rehabilitation
• •Advising, instructing and counselling parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques
• •Stimulating and developing interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
• •Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
• •Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports

Employment Projections to 2034