How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Middle School

  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher
  • Speech and Language Pathologist Teacher

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle 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.

  • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
  • Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
  • Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work.
  • Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Prepare for assigned classes, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.

  • Supervise school or student activities.
  • Supervise student research or internship work.
  • Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
  • Display student work.
  • Evaluate student work.
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.