Special Education Teacher

Job description

About The Job: 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. Here’s What You’ll Be Doing: - Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory. - Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement. - Communicate with children to provide them with comfort, encouragement, or positive reinforcement - Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual education plans (IEPs). - Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities. - Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment or materials to prevent injuries and damage. - Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students. What you...