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As a special needs education teaching professional, sometimes called a special educational needs teacher, you’ll use your pastoral and teaching skills to offer additional support to children with special educational needs to make sure that they’re able to achieve their potential as a student. Read on to learn more about this career, what you’ll do in your role, and how you can study or work towards it.
Having a role as a special educational needs teacher will see you looking after one or more groups of children and delivering a broad curriculum of educational or social activities for their benefit. You might work with children with a certain type of additional emotional or education need. You might work with one class all of the time or educate multiple cohorts, in rotation with other teachers.
Collaborating with school management and other teachers, you’ll care for the wellbeing of your students, track their performance and achievements, plan lessons and activities, manage behaviour in the classroom, and create a safe and positive learning environment. You’ll enjoy caring for your students, supporting them and preparing them for success.
Daily tasks will vary but could involve:
The average salary for a special needs education teaching professional in the UK is £27,560. Graduates start at around £25,000. Data from HESA (2017/2018).
Travel isn’t typically a part of this role, as your role will usually be based in a certain school or college.
You can do some work activities from home, like planning or marking, but you’ll normally need to be present in the school or college every day.
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