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Description

Teach secondary school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with aurally and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

  • Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
  • Administers and interprets results of ability and achievement tests.
  • Selects and teaches reading material and math problems related to everyday life of individual student.
  • Meets with parents to provide support, guidance in using community resources, and skills in dealing with student's learning impairment.
  • Observes, evaluates, and prepares reports on progress of students.
  • Provides consistent reinforcement to learning and continuous feedback to student.
  • Works with students to increase motivation.
  • Confers with other staff members to plan programs designed to promote educational, physical, and social development of students.
  • Confers with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and others to develop individual educational plan for student.
  • Instructs students, using special educational strategies and techniques to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, memory, language, and cognition.
  • Instructs students in academic subjects, utilizing various teaching techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, and repetition, to reinforce learning.
  • Instructs students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and economic self- sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
  • Plans curriculum and other instructional materials to meet student's needs, considering such factors as physical, emotional, and educational abilities.

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    • Job-Required Social Interaction
    • Objective or Subjective Information
    • Coordinate or Lead Others
    • Indoors
    • Frustrating Circumstances

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