Special needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.

Entry Reqirements

Honours, Bachelor's degree

Typical Tasks

• Discusses student.
• Updates and maintains students.
• Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.
• Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.
• Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students progress.
• Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.
• Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student.
• Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student.
• Assesses student.
• Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.

Desired Skills

Learning Strategies, Monitoring, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Writing, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Mathematics, Science