Overview & Salary

Overview

Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

On the job, you would:

  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
  • Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and instructional technology.
  • Develop or write Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students.

Education

  • master's degree
  • bachelor's degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $48,140
Annual median $66,600
Annual 90th percentile $105,320

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Math and Science

  • psychology
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Business

  • customer service

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • figuring out how to use new ideas or things

Social

  • teaching people how to do something
  • understanding people's reactions

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Social

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

  • Concern for Others
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Cooperation
  • Stress Tolerance

Abilities

Verbal

  • read and understand what is written
  • communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted
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