Special and Additional Needs Education Teaching Professionals
Description
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.
Tasks
- 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.
Entry Requirements
Honours, Bachelor's degree
Skills
- Learning Strategies
- Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Critical Thinking
- Mathematics
- Science
Related Courses
- A-Level Programme - Extended Certificate in Early Childhood Development (AAQ)
- Allergy Awareness in Children - Level 2
- Award in Education and Training - Level 3
- BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies (Graduate Practitioner)
- BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies (Graduate Practitioner) (Top-Up)
- BA (Hons) Studies in Primary Education (Top-Up)
- Caring for the Elderly - Level 2
- Childcare - Early Years Practitioner - Level 2
- Childcare - Level 1
- Children and Young People's Workforce - Level 2 (QCF)
- Diploma in Teaching (Further Education Skills) - Level 5
- Early Years and Education - T Level - Level 3
- Early Years Educator - Apprenticeship - Level 3
- Early Years Lead Practitioner - Apprenticeship - Level 5
- Early Years Practitioner - Apprenticeship - Level 2
- Early Years Practitioner - Work-based - Level 2
- FdA Early Years and Education (Foundation Degree)
- In-Service Certificate in Education (Lifelong Learning) - Level 5
- In-Service Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE, Lifelong Learning) - Level 7
- In-Service Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Lifelong Learning) - Level 6
- Introducing Caring for Children and Young People - Level 2
- Personal Training - Level 3 - Part-Time
- Senior Practitioners in an Early Years Setting - Level 5 - Workplace
- Special Education Needs and Disability - Level 2
- Technical Occupational Entry for the Early Years Workforce - Level 3 - Work-based
- Understanding Behaviour that Challenges - Level 2
- Understanding Distressed Behaviour in Children - Level 2