Self-Contained Classroom Special Education Teacher
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.
Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
Guide and counsel students with adjustments, academic problems, or special academic interests.
Monitor teachers and teacher assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
Prepare for assigned classes, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
Supervise school or student activities.
Assist students with special educational needs.
Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.