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Special Education Teachers, Secondary Schoolresume guide.

Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. A strong Special Education Teachers, Secondary School resume shows instructing, learning strategies and reading comprehension, and names the tools you have worked with, such as Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Outlook.

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01Also called

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Education SpecialistEmotional Disability Special Education Teacher (ED SPED Teacher)Exceptional Student Education Teacher (ESE Teacher)Handicapped TeacherHS SPED Teacher (High School Special Education Teacher)Learning Disabilities Special Education Teacher (LD Special Education Teacher)Learning Support TeacherSpecial Day Class Teacher (SDC Teacher)SPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher)SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher)

02Skills employers expect

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Importance is how much the skill matters to the job; level is how much of it the job demands. Both are worth naming on the resume, in this order.

SkillImportanceLevel
InstructingVery highAdvanced
Learning StrategiesVery highAdvanced
Reading ComprehensionVery highAdvanced
SpeakingVery highAdvanced
Active ListeningHighAdvanced
CoordinationHighIntermediate
MonitoringHighAdvanced
Service OrientationHighIntermediate
Social PerceptivenessHighAdvanced
WritingHighAdvanced

03Knowledge areas

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  • Education and Training
  • English Language
  • Psychology
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Administrative
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Mathematics
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Administration and Management

04Common responsibilities

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Ordered by importance. Each one is a bullet waiting for a result and a number.

  1. Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
  2. Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  3. Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
  4. Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
  5. Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
  6. Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
  7. Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
  8. Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
  9. Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of handicapping conditions.
  10. Teach personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, and self-advocacy.

05Software and tools

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20 tools across 16 categories. The six largest categories are below; Hot marks a hot technology, In demand a tool employers ask for most often.

Device drivers or system software2
  • Screen reader software
  • Screen magnification software
Document management software2
Electronic mail software2
Graphics or photo imaging software2
Computer based training software1
  • Text to speech software
Data base user interface and query software1
Desktop publishing software1
Internet browser software1
Office suite software1
Presentation software1
Spell checkers1
  • Hand held spell checkers
Spreadsheet software1
Video creation and editing software1
  • Video editing softwareIn demand
Voice recognition software1
  • Voice activated software
Web page creation and editing software1
Word processing software1

06Education and preparation

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Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
42% of surveyed workers. Others report Master's Degree (42%) and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate (15%).
Preparation level
Job Zone 4 · Considerable preparation
Usually a four-year degree and several years of related experience.

07Putting it on your resume

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BEE · How to show it

Lead with what you built. For a Job Zone 4 role, hiring managers and parsers both look for outcomes before credentials. Put two or three results at the top of each job entry, with the scale or effect stated plainly.

Name the tools exactly. This occupation is heavy on named software. A skills section that says "Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Photoshop" matches more job descriptions than a general phrase. Use the spelling employers use.

Show learning strategies and reading comprehension, not just instructing. Learning strategies and reading comprehension rank close to instructing for this occupation. One bullet per role that shows a decision, a tradeoff or a result covers them.

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