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Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten

Teach academic, social, and life skills to kindergarten 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.

What you’d do

  • Instruct students with disabilities in academic subjects, using a variety of techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, or repetition to reinforce learning and meet students' varying needs.
  • Prepare objectives, outlines, or other materials for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or school or state requirements.
  • Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
  • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, or administrative regulations.
  • Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
  • Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
  • Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, or social development.

Skills that matter

  • Speaking
  • Active Listening
  • Instructing
  • Learning Strategies
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Learning

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Deaf Teacher
  • Hearing Impaired Itinerant Teacher (HI Itinerant Teacher)
  • Special Education Resource Teacher
  • SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher)
  • Emotional Disabilities Teacher
  • K-1 SPED Teacher (Kindergarten through First Grade Special Education Teacher)

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