Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
HS SPED Teacher (High School Special Education Teacher),
Learning Support Teacher,
SPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher),
SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher)
What they 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.
- DemandHigh
- state Avg. Salary $$$$$$50,060Download Career Flyer
What do they typically do on the job?
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
Personality
Interests
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Abilities
Whether you have received formal training or not, these types of abilities are helpful in this career.
Verbal
Communicate by speaking
Communicate by writing
Ideas and Logic
Notice when problems happen
Make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Skills
People who want to pursue this career have skills in these areas.
Basic Skills
Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
Reading work related information
Problem Solving
Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
Teaching people how to do something
Changing what is done based on other people's actions
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Data for NSI career cards comes from the following: Idaho Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, MyNextMove, and Career OneStop