General Description
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS teach primary, middle or intermediate, and secondary school students with learning difficulties, hearing impairment and sight impairment, and promote students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.
Indicative Skill Level
ANZSCO Skill Level: 1
In Australia and New Zealand, the majority of occupations in this unit group have:
- A level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification.
In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).
Registration or licensing is required.
Task Information
- assessing students’ abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities, exceptional intellectual gifts, or specific problems of language and culture
- planning, organising and implementing special programs to provide remedial or advanced tuition
- administering various forms of assessment and interpreting the results
- teaching basic academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to hearing and sight impaired students
- devising instructional materials, methods and aids to assist in training and rehabilitation
- advising, instructing and counselling parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques
- stimulating and developing interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
- conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
- preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
Occupations in this group:
（1）241511 SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER
Teaches academic and living skills to primary, middle or intermediate, and secondary school students with particular learning difficulties using various techniques, and promotes students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
Specialisations: Behaviour Support Teacher、Remedial Teacher、Teacher of Gifted Students
（2）241512 TEACHER OF THE HEARING IMPAIRED
Teaches academic and living skills to hearing impaired students, and promotes students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
（3）241513 TEACHER OF THE SIGHT IMPAIRED
Teaches academic and living skills to sight impaired students, and promotes students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
（4）241599 SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS NEC
This occupation group covers Special Education Teachers not elsewhere classified. Registration or licensing is required.
Occupations in this group include: Aboriginal Education Teacher、Correspondence School Teacher、Distance Education Teacher
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