Jobs / Education and social services / 25-2057.00
Special Education Teachers, Middle School
Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school 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.
- US jobs
- 95,200
- Median wage
- $66,810 a year
- Job family
- Education and social services
Can agents do the work of special education teachers, middle school?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Education and social services: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 25%Develop educational programs, plans, or proceduresNot measured
- 9%Advise others on educational or vocational mattersNot measured
- 8%Teach life skillsNot measured
- 7%Prepare informational or instructional materialsNot measured
- 7%Assess student capabilities, needs, or performanceNot measured
- 6%Teach academic or vocational subjectsNot measured
- 5%Set up classrooms, facilities, educational materials, or equipmentNot measured
- 5%Collaborate in the development of educational programsNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in education and social services, not always this occupation's tasks.
Context only
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Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Develop or write Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of handicapping conditions.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Instruct students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and self-sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, and food preparation.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
- Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and instructional technology.
- Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
- Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
Other job titles for this occupation (39)
ED SPED Teacher (Emotional Disabilities Special Education Teacher) · Interrelated SPED Teacher (Interrelated Special Education Teacher) · Learning Disabilities Teacher (LD Teacher) · Learning Support Teacher · Middle School Resource Teacher · MS SPED Teacher (Middle School Special Education Teacher) · Self-Contained SPED Teacher (Self-Contained Special Education Teacher) · SLD Teacher (Specific Learning Disability Teacher) · SPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher) · SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher) · Blind Teacher · Braille Teacher · Deaf Teacher · DHOH Teacher (Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher) · EBD SPED Teacher (Emotional-Behavioral Disabilities Special Education Teacher) · Emotionally Impaired Teacher · Handicapped Teacher · Hearing Impaired Teacher (HI Teacher) · Intervention Teacher · Learning Disabilities Special Education Teacher (LD SPED Teacher) · Learning Disabled Teacher · Lip Reading Teacher · Mentally Impaired Teacher · Middle School Students with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities Teacher · MMI Teacher (Mildly Mentally Impaired Teacher) · MS Teacher (Middle School Teacher) · Physically Impaired Teacher · Remedial Math Teacher (Remedial Mathematics Teacher) · Remedial Reading Teacher · SAI (Specialized Academic Instructor) · School SPED Teacher (School Special Education Teacher) · SED Middle School Teacher (Serious Emotional Disability Middle School Teacher) · SED Middle School Teacher (Severe Emotional Disorders Middle School Teacher) · Sign Language Teacher · Special Needs Teacher · SPED Inclusion Teacher (Special Education Inclusion Teacher) · SPED Math Teacher (Special Education Mathematics Teacher) · SPED Middle School Teacher (Special Education Middle School Teacher) · Visually Impaired Teacher