Where these jobs are in Australia
| VIC | NSW | QLD | SA | WA | TAS | NT | ACT |
| 20.5% | 33.0% | 26.9% | 6.0% | 8.6% | 1.8% | 1.8% | 1.5% |
Source from: https://labourmarketinsights.gov.au/occupation-profile/special-education-teachers?occupationCode=2415
Job Summary of this Unit Group:
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.
Bachelor degree or higher qualification
Registration or licensing is required.
Whether the Education can be substituted with experience:
- In some instances, relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.
Detailed Tasks:
- 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
241511 Special Needs Teacher ANZSCO
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.
Skill Level: 1
Skilled Occupations List: Long Term
Specialisations:
- Behaviour Support Teacher
- Remedial Teacher
- Teacher of Gifted Students
241512 Teacher of the Hearing Impaired ANZSCO
Teaches academic and living skills to hearing impaired students, and promotes students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
Skill Level: 1
Skilled Occupations List: Long Term
241513 Teacher of the Sight Impaired ANZSCO
Teaches academic and living skills to sight impaired students, and promotes students’ social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
Skill Level: 1
Skilled Occupations List: Long Term
241599 Special Education Teachers nec ANZSCO
This occupation group covers Special Education Teachers not elsewhere classified. Registration or licensing is required.
Skill Level: 1
Skilled Occupations List: Long Term
Occupations in this group include:
- Aboriginal Education Teacher
- Correspondence School Teacher
- Distance Education Teacher
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