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Career Details :: Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Description

Teach secondary school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with aurally and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
• Administers and interprets results of ability and achievement tests.
• Selects and teaches reading material and math problems related to everyday life of individual student.
• Meets with parents to provide support, guidance in using community resources, and skills in dealing with student's learning impairment.
• Observes, evaluates, and prepares reports on progress of students.
• Provides consistent reinforcement to learning and continuous feedback to student.
• Works with students to increase motivation.
• Confers with other staff members to plan programs designed to promote educational, physical, and social development of students.
• Confers with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and others to develop individual educational plan for student.
• Instructs students, using special educational strategies and techniques to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, memory, language, and cognition.
• Instructs students in academic subjects, utilizing various teaching techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, and repetition, to reinforce learning.
• Instructs students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and economic self- sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
• Plans curriculum and other instructional materials to meet student's needs, considering such factors as physical, emotional, and educational abilities.

Related Careers

• Educational Psychologists
  
• Educational, Vocational, and School Counselors
  
• Health Educators
  
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Problem Sensitivity

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Assisting and Caring for Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job

Important Skills

• Learning Strategies
  
• Instructing
  
• Social Perceptiveness
  
• Speaking
  
• Active Listening
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Coordinate or Lead Others
• Indoors
• Frustrating Circumstances

Related Majors

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Administration	[ add ]
Arts/Education	[ add ]
Behavior Disorders/Education	[ add ]
Bilingual Education	[ add ]
Bilingual Education/Elementary	[ add ]
Bilingual Education/Secondary/Other	[ add ]
Bilingual Elementary Education	[ add ]
Bilingual Secondary Education	[ add ]
Bilingual/Bicultural Education	[ add ]
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies	[ add ]
Bilingual/Multicultural Education	[ add ]
Bilingualism	[ add ]
Classics Education	[ add ]
Cognitive Disabilities	[ add ]
Communication/Instruction	[ add ]
Communication/Learning Disorders	[ add ]
Cooperative Special Education	[ add ]
Diversified Education	[ add ]
Early Childhood Special Education	[ add ]
Earth Science Education	[ add ]
Economics for Educators	[ add ]
Education	[ add ]
Education Administration	[ add ]
Education of the Deaf	[ add ]
Education of the Hearing Impaired	[ add ]
Education of the Mentally/Physically Handicapped	[ add ]
Education of the Speech/Hearing Handicapped	[ add ]
Education of the Visually Handicapped	[ add ]
Education Studies	[ add ]
Education/Art	[ add ]
Education/Early Childhood	[ add ]
Education/General Studies	[ add ]
Education/Human Services	[ add ]
Education/Organizational Administration	[ add ]
Educational Administration	[ add ]
Educational Administration/Supervision	[ add ]
Educational Interpreting/Transliteration for the Deaf	[ add ]
Educational Leadership	[ add ]
Educational Leadership/Superintendent Endorsement	[ add ]
Educational Management	[ add ]
Educational Processes	[ add ]
Educational Studies	[ add ]
Elementary Bilingual Education	[ add ]
Elementary Education/Communication Disorders	[ add ]
Elementary Education/Deaf Education	[ add ]
Elementary Education/Special Education	[ add ]
Elementary School Administration	[ add ]
Elementary/Bilingual Education	[ add ]
Elementary/Intense Special Needs	[ add ]
Elementary/Moderate Special Needs	[ add ]
Elementary/Special Education	[ add ]
Emotional Disturbances	[ add ]
Exceptional Student Education	[ add ]
General Education	[ add ]
Generic Special Education	[ add ]
Inclusive Elementary/Special Education	[ add ]
Italian Education	[ add ]
Latin Education	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities Education	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities/Educable Mentally Handicapped	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities/Social/Emotional Disorders	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities/Socially/Emotionally Disordered	[ add ]
Learning Handicapped	[ add ]
Mathematics/Science Education	[ add ]
Mental Retardation	[ add ]
Multi-Handicapped/Deaf/Blind	[ add ]
Music in Special Education	[ add ]
Pre-veterinary Science	[ add ]
Professional Education	[ add ]
Psychology/Education	[ add ]
Psychology/Special Education	[ add ]
Rehabilitation Teaching	[ add ]
Russian Education	[ add ]
School Administration	[ add ]
School Administration/Supervision	[ add ]
School Counselor/Bilingual	[ add ]
School Mid-Management Administration	[ add ]
School Superintendent	[ add ]
School Supervision	[ add ]
School Supervisor	[ add ]
Secondary Education/Communication	[ add ]
Secondary School Administration	[ add ]
Special Education	[ add ]
Special Education/Bilingual	[ add ]
Special Education/Early Child	[ add ]
Special Education/Elementary	[ add ]
Special Education/General	[ add ]
Special Education/Learning Disabilities	[ add ]
Special Education/Mentally Retarded	[ add ]
Specific Learning Disabilities	[ add ]
Speech/Hearing Handicapped Education	[ add ]
Speech/Language Pathology/Learning Disabilities	[ add ]
Supervision of Instruction	[ add ]
Teacher Education	[ add ]
Teacher of Speech/Hearing Handicapped	[ add ]
Teachers of Speech/Hearing Handicapped	[ add ]
Teaching	[ add ]
Teaching/Learning	[ add ]
Therapeutic Rehabilitation/Education	[ add ]
Urban Multicultural Education	[ add ]

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