Special needs education teaching professionals

Description

Special needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.

Qualifications

Typical tasks

• creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students;
• assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly;
• gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s handicap;
• develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs;
• encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability;
• prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students progress;
• supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline;
• liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists;
• updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress;
• discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals.

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