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.
  • Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
  • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.

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