Special needs education teaching professionals
Special needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.
£43,982
Median Salary
New workers start around £24,819. Normal pay is £43,982 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £64,792.
Daily Tasks
- Discusses student.
- Updates and maintains students.
- Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.
- Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.
- Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students progress.
- Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.
- Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student.
- Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student.
- Assesses student.
- Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.
Skills employers are asking for
- Learning Strategies
- Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Critical Thinking
- Mathematics
- Science
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