259531 Special Education Teacher

Registration or licensing is required.

Specialist Teachers (Vision Impairment) and Teachers of the Deaf are excluded from this occupation. Specialist Teachers (Vision Impairment) are included in Occupation 259532 Specialist Teacher (Vision Impairment). Teachers of the Deaf are included in Occupation 259533 Teacher of the Deaf.

This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

• Assesses students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, sensory, physical, social, and emotional disabilities, or specific problems of language and culture
• Develops and implements individualised learning, behaviour, and wellbeing plans to maximise students' growth
• Teaches students with physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and linguistic needs
• Enhances student engagement through enriched differentiated and individualised learning programs
• Administers various forms of assessment and interprets the results
• Prepares and maintains students' data, and records and submits reports as required
• Advises, instructs, and counsels parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques and therapies that benefit students' growth