How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Preschool

  • 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.

  • Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.