Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.

Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.

Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social developm...

Provide additional instruction in vocational areas.

Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.