How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten

Teach academic, social, and life skills to kindergarten 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.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.
Confer with other staff members to plan, schedule, or conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, or social development.
Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
Modify the general kindergarten education curriculum for special-needs students.
Monitor teachers or teacher assistants to ensure adherence to special education program requirements.
Organize and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their perceptual skills.
Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.

Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
Assist students with special educational needs.
Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.
Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
Display student work.
Distribute instructional or library materials.
Evaluate student work.
Plan educational activities.

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