How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Preschool

  • Early Childhood Special Education Teacher
  • Early Childhood Special Educator
  • Speech and Hearing Handicapped Teacher

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to preschool-aged students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

  • Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, or potential.
  • Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, or changing their diapers.
  • Communicate nonverbally with children to provide them with comfort, encouragement, or positive reinforcement.
  • Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual education plans (IEPs).
  • Develop individual educational plans (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, or social development.
  • Meet with parents or guardians to discuss their children's progress, advise them on using community resources, or teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
  • Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
  • Organize and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their perceptual skills.
  • Organize and supervise games or other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, or social development.
  • Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.
  • Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
  • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, or social skills, to preschool students with special needs.

  • Display student work.
  • Evaluate student work.
  • Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
  • Provide for basic needs of children.