Occupation Atlasspecial educational needs teacher
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/976cbfcc-8958-4800-a435-71d15405a42a
special educational needs teacher
Special educational needs teachers work with and teach children, young people, and adults with an intellectual or physical disability. They use a range of specialised concepts, strategies and tools to optimise learners' communication, mobility, autonomy, and social integration. They select teaching methods and support resources to enable individual learners to maximise their potential for independent living.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SAISocial · Artistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social7.00
- A Artistic3.98
- I Investigative3.49
- C Conventional3.18
- R Realistic2.70
- E Enterprising1.70
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Special Education Teachers, Preschool (25-2051.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a narrower O*NET occupation within this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (32)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- disability care
- disability types
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- instructional strategies
- learning needs analysis
- maintain relations with children's parents
- manage student relationships
- monitor children's physical development
- perform classroom management
- prepare lesson content
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students
- social development
- special needs education
- special needs learning equipment
- stimulate students' independence
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
Optional (37)
- advise on lesson plans
- assessment processes
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- behavioural disorders
- common children's diseases
- communication disorders
- communication related to hearing impairment
- consult students on learning content
- development delays
- escort students on a field trip
- facilitate motor skill activities
- hearing disability
- kindergarten school procedures
- learning difficulties
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain students' discipline
- manage resources for educational purposes
- mobility disability
- organise creative performance
- perform playground surveillance
- primary school procedures
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide learning support
- provide lesson materials
- secondary school procedures
- support people with hearing impairment
- teach braille
- teach digital literacy
- teach kindergarten class content
- teach primary education class content
- teach secondary education class content
- teach sign language
- use learning strategies
- visual disability
- work with virtual learning environments
- workplace sanitation
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 32 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
early years special educational needs teacher
29 shared · 5 more of its ownprovide specialised instruction for special needs students, learning needs analysis, social development, assist children in developing personal skills
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special educational needs teacher primary school
26 shared · 7 more of its ownprovide specialised instruction for special needs students, assist children with special needs in education settings, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children
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teacher of talented and gifted students
24 shared · 11 more of its ownlearning needs analysis, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, special needs education
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early years teacher
23 shared · 6 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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Freinet school teacher
23 shared · 10 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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Montessori school teacher
23 shared · 11 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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special educational needs teacher secondary school
20 shared · 11 more of its ownprovide specialised instruction for special needs students, assist children with special needs in education settings, special needs education, monitor children's physical development
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primary school teacher
19 shared · 10 more of its ownimplement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, maintain relations with children's parents, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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