251431 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 251432 Specialist Teacher (Vision Impairment). Teachers of the Deaf are included in Occupation 251433 Teacher of the Deaf.

• 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