Special educational needs teacher
Code 2352.1
Special educational needs teachers work with and teach children, young people, and adults with an intellectual or physical disability. They use a range of specialised concepts, strategies and tools to optimise learners' communication, mobility, autonomy, and social integration. They select teaching methods and support resources to enable individual learners to maximise their potential for independent living.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- learning needs analysis
- disability care
- monitor children's physical development
- special needs education
- special needs learning equipment
- curriculum objectives
- disability types
Skills and competences
- apply teaching strategies
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- support children's wellbeing
- assist children in developing personal skills
- support the positiveness of youths
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist students with equipment
- implement care programmes for children
- demonstrate when teaching
- assess the development of youth
- stimulate students' independence
- guarantee students' safety
- manage student relationships
- observar progresos de estudiantes
- prepare lesson content
- assist students in their learning
Transversal competences
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- handle children's problems
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students
- perform classroom management
- maintain relations with children's parents
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