| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Special Education Teacher |
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
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- Prepare classrooms for class activities and provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and imaginative play.
- Instruct students in academic subjects using a variety of techniques such as phonetics, multisensory learning, and repetition to reinforce learning and to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool, kindergarten, or elementary school programs.
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| High school Special Education Teacher |
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
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- Teach personal development skills such as goal setting, independence, and self-advocacy.
- Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
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| Middle School Special Education Teacher |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Provide additional instruction in vocational areas.
- Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
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