Sign language teacher

Code 2353.2

Sign language teachers educate non-age-specific students in sign language. They teach sign language to both students with or without special educational needs such as deafness. They organise their classes using a variety of lesson materials, work interactively with the group, and assess and evaluate their individual progress through assignments and examinations.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • communication related to hearing impairment
  • hearing disability
  • special needs education
  • special needs learning equipment
  • hearing loss
  • sign language
  • language teaching methods
  • curriculum objectives
  • assessment processes
  • communication disorders

Skills and competences

  • apply teaching strategies
  • demonstrate when teaching
  • teach sign language
  • teach languages
  • manage student relationships
  • observar progresos de estudiantes
  • prepare lesson content

Transversal competences

  • give constructive feedback
  • perform classroom management

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences