How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Middle School

  • Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
  • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
  • Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and instructional technology.
  • 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 supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
  • Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
  • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
  • Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.

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