Career
Special Education Teachers
Education & Training
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Career stats
Weekly pay
$1,126
Prospects
Medium
Employed in Australia
24,600
Growth
Strong growth
Overview
Special Education Teachers teach primary, middle or intermediate, and secondary school students with learning difficulties, hearing impairment and sight impairment, and promote students' social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.
Job Titles
Job Tasks
This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.
- assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual physical social and emotional disabilities exceptional intellectual gifts or specific problems of language and culture
- planning organising and implementing special programs to provide remedial or advanced tuition
- administering various forms of assessment and interpreting the results
- teaching basic academic subjects and practical and self-help skills to hearing and sight impaired students
- devising instructional materials methods and aids to assist in training and rehabilitation
- advising instructing and counselling parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques
- stimulating and developing interests abilities manual skills and coordination
- conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
- preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
Training & Qualifications
Vocational education & training (VET)
- Certificate III in Education Support
- Certificate IV in Education Support
- Graduate Certificate in Transformational Leadership in Education
- Graduate Certificate in Secondary STEM Education
- Undergraduate Certificate in Teacher Preparation
Industry
Education & Training
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