How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

  • Work Study Assistant
  • Exceptional Children's Teacher

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary 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, or other 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.
  • 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.

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