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Kindergarten Special Education Teacher

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AVG. SALARY

$59,990

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EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree

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JOB OUTLOOK

Stable

What They Do

Kindergarten Special Education Teachers Career Video

About This Career

Teaches 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.

This career is part of the Education and Training cluster Teaching/Training pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Administers standardized ability and achievement tests to kindergarten students with special needs.
  • Attends professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.
  • Collaborates with other teachers or administrators to develop, evaluate, or revise kindergarten programs.
  • Confers with other staff members to plan, schedule, or conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Confers with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, or social development.
  • Confers with parents, guardians, teachers, counselors, or administrators to resolve students' behavioral or academic problems.
  • Controls the inventory or distribution of classroom equipment, materials, or supplies.
  • Develops or implements strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
  • Employs special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
  • Establishes and enforces rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
  • Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
  • Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time

Work Hours and Travel

  • Overtime work

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • Emotional Disabilities Teacher
  • Hearing Impaired Itinerant Teacher (HI Itinerant Teacher)
  • Learning Support Teacher
  • Resource Program Teacher
  • Special Education Inclusion Teacher
  • Special Education Resource Teacher

Contact

  • Email Support
  • 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900
  • North Dakota Career Resource Network
    ndcrn@nd.gov | (701) 328-9733

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