Roles and Responsibilities of the Special Education Teacher

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Special
Education Teacher

• . The teacher is unique in that he/she can fit
  many different roles in the educational
  environment. However, each of these distinct
  roles involves a variety of responsibilities and
  functions. Understanding these responsibilities
  can only help the special educator become more
  familiar with the role and increase the chances
  for success. For instance, the special education
  teacher can be assigned as

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Roles

• 1-A teacher in a self contained special education
  classroom in a regular school.

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2- The resource teacher in a categorical resource
room, a resource room in a special school which
deals with only one type of exceptionality, or a
non categorical resource room, a resource room
usually found in the regular mainstream school
where children with varied exceptionalities are
educated at one time .
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Roles of the SET

• 3-A member of the IEP Committee (depending on the
  state may also for example be referred to as the
  Committee on Special Education or IEP Committee),
  a district based committee mandated by Federal
  law whose responsibilities include the
  classification, placement and evaluation of all
  disabled children within the district.

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Roles of the SET

• 4-A member of a multidisciplinary team educating
  secondary students in a departmentalized program.

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Roles of the SET

• 5-A consultant teacher, a special education
  teacher assigned to work with a child with a
  disability right in the mainstreamed class.

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Roles of the SET

• 6- An itinerant teacher a special education
  teacher employed by an agency hired to visit
  various schools in several districts and work
  with children with disabilities.

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Roles of the SET

• 7-An Inclusion Teacher in a partial inclusion
  program or full inclusion program

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Roles of the SET

• 8- As a private practitioner who deals with the
  evaluation and remediation of children as an
  auxiliary service after school

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Roles of the SET

• 9- The special education teacher can also be an
  educational evaluator (educational diagnostician)
  on the Child Study Team (CST), a school based
  support team that discusses and makes
  recommendation on high-risk students.