How do they match: Special Education Teachers, Middle School

  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher
  • Learning Support Teacher

  • Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle 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.

  • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
  • Administer standardized ability and achievement tests, and interpret results to determine students' strengths and needs.
  • Collaborate with other teachers that provide instruction to special education students to ensure that the students receive appropriate support.
  • Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
  • Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
  • Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  • Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
  • Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Prepare for assigned classes, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
  • Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
  • Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

  • Supervise school or student activities.
  • Supervise student research or internship work.
  • Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
  • Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
  • Display student work.
  • Evaluate student work.