How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to kindergarten 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.

  • Confer with other staff members to plan, schedule, or conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, or social development.
  • Monitor teachers or teacher assistants to ensure adherence to special education program requirements.
  • Organize and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their perceptual skills.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
  • Prepare assignments for teacher assistants or volunteers.
  • Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, or assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

  • Assist students with special educational needs.
  • Display student work.
  • Evaluate student work.
  • Tutor students who need extra assistance.