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Title: 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.
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