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Special and Additional Needs Education Teaching Professionals

Special and additional needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£14,894
£34,014
£51,313

New workers start around £14,894. Normal pay is £34,014 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £51,313.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 82,950 vacancies for this type of job

2.81%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals.

  • Updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress.

  • Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.

  • Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.

  • Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students’ progress.

  • Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.

  • Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs.

  • Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s disability.

  • Assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly.

  • Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Learning Support

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Working With Children

  • Mental Health

  • Psychology

  • Disabilities

  • Special Education

  • Due Diligence

  • Individualized Education Programs (IEP)

  • Personal Care

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Teaching

  • Communication

  • English Language

  • Mathematics

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Empathy

  • Resilience

  • Patience

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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