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Special Education Teachers, Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary School

Teach elementary and 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.

 
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Overview

$46,360.00 Median Annual Wage 9,000 Average Job Openings Per Year
1.7 Average Unemployment Percentage 4.5 Percentage That Completed High School
219,000 Employment Numbers in 2006 8.3 Percentage That Had Some College
262,000 Employment Numbers in 2016 (est.) 87.2 Percentage That Went Beyond College Degree

Sample Job Titles

Adapted Physical Education Teacher Assistant Teacher Autistic Teacher
Cross-Categorical Special Education Teacher Developmentally Delayed Special Education Teacher (DD Special Education Teacher) Developmental Therapist
Early Childhood Special Education Certified Teacher Early Childhood Special Education Teacher (EC Special Education Teacher) Early Childhood Special Educator (EC Special Educator)
Early Interventionist Early Intervention Specialist ED Teacher (Emotional Disabilities Teacher)
Elementary School Teacher Elementary Special Education Teacher Emotional Support Teacher
Evaluator Exceptional Needs Teacher Exceptional Student Education Teacher (ESE Teacher)
Grade School Teacher Hearing Impaired Itinerant Teacher (HI Itinerant Teacher) Intervention Specialist
Learning and Behavioral Disabilities Teacher (LBD Teacher) Learning Disabilities Teacher (LD Teacher) Learning Specialist
Learning Support Teacher Life Skills Teacher Mildly Disabled Student Special Education Teacher
Non-Categorical Preschool Teacher Paraprofessional Preschool Special Education Teacher
Primary Special Educator Reading Specialist Resource Program Teacher
Resource Room Special Education Teacher Resource Teacher SEBD Teacher (Severe Emotional Behavioral Disorders Teacher)
Second Grade Teacher SED Elementary Teacher (Severe Emotional Disorders Elementary Teacher) Severe/Profound Mental Handicaps Special Education Teacher
Special Day Class Teacher Special Education Administrator Special Education Resource Teacher
Special Education Teacher Special Education Teacher of Multi-Handicapped Students Special Needs Teacher
Speech-Language Pathologist Teacher Teacher, Blind
Teacher, Braille Teacher, Deaf Teacher, Emotionally Impaired
Teacher, Handicapped Teacher, Hearing Impaired Teacher, Home Therapy
Teacher, Learning Disabled Teacher, Lip Reading Teacher, Mentally Impaired
Teacher, Mentally Retarded Teacher of the Handicapped Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped
Teacher, Physically Impaired Teacher, Remedial Reading, Math, or Other Subject Teacher, Resource
Teacher, Visually Impaired VE Teacher (Varying Exceptionalities Teacher)

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