How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Administer standardized ability and achievement tests, and interpret results to determine students' strengths and needs.
Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of handicapping conditions.
Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.

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