Resource teacher

Special needs teachers teach children, young people or adults with physical or intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties or other special needs, promoting their social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.

• assessing students' abilities and limitations in relation to intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities, exceptional intellectual abilities or other specific problems;
• developing or modifying curricula, preparing programmes and conducting lessons and activities adapted to students' abilities and needs;
• instructing individuals or groups using special techniques or aids appropriate to students' needs;
• applying special educational strategies and techniques during teaching to improve the development of sensory and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition and memory;
• establishing and enforcing rules of behaviour, policies and procedures for maintaining order among students;
• teaching subjects, practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, visual or similar impairments;
• stimulating and developing students' confidence, interests, abilities, dexterity, skill and coordination;
• consulting with other staff members to plan and prepare teaching schedules for persons with special educational needs;
• preparing and maintaining student records and submitting reports;
• introducing various forms of assessing and recording each student's development;
• consulting with students, parents, head teachers and other professionals to develop individual education plans to promote students' development.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Teacher, resource
• Teacher of children with language and speech disorders
• Teacher of children with intellectual disabilities
• Teacher, auditory-verbal rehabilitator for children with hearing impairment
• Teacher of children with visual impairment