Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

What Does a Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
• 2Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• 3Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
• 4Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
• 5Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
• 6Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• 7Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
• 8Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.

Required Skills

• Learning Strategies
• Speaking
• Reading Comprehension
• Monitoring
• Active Listening
• Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Email software
• Facebook
• Hand held spell checkers
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software

Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Salary