How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Middle School

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school 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 parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
  • Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
  • Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
  • Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.

  • Advise students on academic or career matters.
  • Create technology-based learning materials.
  • Display student work.
  • Distribute instructional or library materials.
  • Evaluate student work.
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
  • Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
  • Order instructional or library materials or equipment.
  • Set up classroom materials or equipment.
  • Supervise student research or internship work.