Special Education Teacher

Description

Teaches academic and living skills to early childhood, primary and secondary school students with particular learning difficulties using various techniques, and promotes students' social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.

Description

Teach academic and living skills to children and adults with learning difficulties, who are blind or have low vision, or are deaf or hard of hearing, and promote students' social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.

Tasks include

• Assesses students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, sensory, physical, social and emotional disabilities, or specific problems of language and culture
• Develops and implements individualised learning, behaviour and wellbeing plans to maximise students' growth
• Teaches students with physical, social, intellectual, emotional and linguistic needs
• Enhances student engagement through enriched differentiated and individualised learning programs
• Administers various forms of assessment and interprets the results
• Prepares and maintains students' data, and records and submits reports as required
• Advises, instructs and counsels parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques and therapies that benefit students' growth