Special Education Teachers, Preschool

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (95%).

• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, or administrative regulations.

• Establish and communicate clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects to students, parents, or guardians.
• Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, or potential.
• Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment or materials to prevent injuries and damage.
• Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual education plans (IEPs).
• Communicate nonverbally with children to provide them with comfort, encouragement, or positive reinforcement.
• Encourage students to explore learning opportunities or persevere with challenging tasks to prepare them for later grades.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
• Monitor teachers or teacher assistants to ensure adherence to special education program requirements.
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, or changing their diapers.
• Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, or social skills, to preschool students with special needs.
• Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
• Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
• Teach students personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, or self-advocacy.
• Develop individual educational plans (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, or social development.
• Meet with parents or guardians to discuss their children's progress, advise them on using community resources, or teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
• Confer with parents, guardians, teachers, counselors, or administrators to resolve students' behavioral or academic problems.