Special educational needs teacher secondary school
Code 2352.1.6
Special educational needs teachers at secondary schools provide specially-designed instruction to students on with a variety of disabilities on a secondary school level and ensure they reach their learning potential. Some special educational needs teachers at secondary schools work with children who have mild to moderate disabilities, implementing a modified curriculum to fit each student's specific needs. Other special educational needs teachers at secondary schools assist and instruct students with intellectual disabilities and autism, focusing on teaching them basic and advanced literacy, life and social skills. All teachers assess the students' progress, taking into account their strengths and weaknesses, and communicate their findings to parents, counselors, administrators and other parties involved.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- disability care
- monitor children's physical development
- learning difficulties
- special needs education
- curriculum objectives
Skills and competences
- apply teaching strategies
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- assign homework
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- liaise with educational support staff
- balance participants' personal needs with group needs
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- demonstrate when teaching
- teach secondary education class content
- assess the development of youth
- guarantee students' safety
- manage student relationships
- maintain students' discipline
- observar progresos de estudiantes
- prepare lesson content
- assist students in their learning
- secondary school procedures
- compile course material
- monitor student's behaviour
Transversal competences
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- liaise with educational staff
- give constructive feedback
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students
- perform classroom management
- maintain relations with children's parents
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