Special Education Teachers, Preschool
Teach preschool school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.
Also called: Early Childhood Special Education Teacher (ECSE Teacher), Resource Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Teacher
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- psychology
- sociology and anthropology
- public safety and security
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- understanding people's reactions
- looking for ways to help people
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Integrity
- Self Control
- Achievement/Effort
- Cooperation
- Dependability
Technology:
Device drivers or system software
- Screen magnification software
- Screen reader software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
Education:
certificate after college
