special educational needs teacher
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.
Also called: teacher in special education needs, teacher of special educational needs, special needs educator, autism teacher, special educational needs professional, special education teacher, special education resource teacher, SEN teacher
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- essential skills
- 37
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- early years special educational needs teacherWhat changes?29 skills in common
- special educational needs teacher primary schoolWhat changes?26 skills in common
- teacher of talented and gifted studentsWhat changes?24 skills in common
- early years teacher23 skills in common
- Freinet school teacher23 skills in common
- Montessori school teacher23 skills in common
- special educational needs teacher secondary school20 skills in common
- primary school teacher19 skills in common
Essential skills
32- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- disability care
- disability types
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- instructional strategies
- learning needs analysis
- maintain relations with children's parents
- manage student relationships
- monitor children's physical development
- perform classroom management
- prepare lesson content
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students
- social development
- special needs education
- special needs learning equipment
- stimulate students' independence
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
Optional skills
37- advise on lesson plans
- assessment processes
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- behavioural disorders
- common children's diseases
- communication disorders
- communication related to hearing impairment
- consult students on learning content
- development delays
- escort students on a field trip
- facilitate motor skill activities
- hearing disability
- kindergarten school procedures
- learning difficulties
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain students' discipline
- manage resources for educational purposes
- mobility disability
- organise creative performance
- perform playground surveillance
- primary school procedures
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide learning support
- provide lesson materials
- secondary school procedures
- support people with hearing impairment
- teach braille
- teach digital literacy
- teach kindergarten class content
- teach primary education class content
- teach secondary education class content
- teach sign language
- use learning strategies
- visual disability
- work with virtual learning environments
- workplace sanitation
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