2362-Special Education Teachers

Job Title: 

Special Education Teachers

Job Description: 

Special education teachers teach physically or mentally handicapped children, young persons, or adults, or those with learning difficulties or other special needs. They promote the social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of their students.

Tasks: 

Tasks include:

  • assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional impairments, exceptional intellectual gifts, or other specific problems
  • designing or modifying curricula and preparing and delivering programmes, lessons and activities adapted to students? abilities and needs
  • giving instruction on an individual or group basis using special techniques or aids appropriate to students? needs
  • employing special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory
  • establishing and enforcing rules for behaviour and policies and procedures to maintain order among students
  • teaching academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments
  • stimulating and developing students? confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
  • conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
  • preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
  • administering various forms of assessment and evaluating progress of each student
  • conferring with students, parents, head teacher and other relevant professionals involved in the students? care to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' development
Additional Notes: 


This unit group includes


Teacher of the mute
Teacher of the mentally handicapped
Teacher of the deaf
Teacher of the blind

This unit group excludes


Vocational education teacher (2330)
Secondary school teacher (2340)
Primary school teacher (2350)

Specific Occupations: 

23621
Teacher of the blind

23622
Teacher of the deaf

23623
Teacher of the mentally handicapped

23624
Special education teachers for infants and children (eg Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children teachers)

23629
Other special education teachers

International Careers(ISCO): 
Source Of Info: 

Source: SINGAPORE STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION 2015, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Republic of Singapore