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Special Needs Education Teaching Professionals

Special 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
£ 11,181
£ 30,470
£ 46,622

New workers start around £11,181. Normal pay is £30,470 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £46,622.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 72,576 vacancies for this type of job

1.45%

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.

  • Updates and maintains students.

  • 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.

  • Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student.

  • Assesses student.

  • 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.

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Working With Children

  • Learning Support

  • Special Education

  • Mental Health

  • Learning Disabilities

  • Psychology

  • Child Protection

  • Personal Care

  • Disabilities

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

  • Communications

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Leadership

  • Mathematics

  • Enthusiasm

  • Resilience

  • Mentorship

  • Interpersonal Communications

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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