Life Skills Special Education Teacher (Elementary School)
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Job overview
The Life Skills Special Education Teacher creates a classroom environment that supports students’ physical, social, and emotional development. The role involves planning and using instructional interventions, implementing student IEPs and 504 accommodations, managing behavior, assessing learning, and using data to inform instruction. The teacher also communicates with school personnel, families, and students, and participates in meetings and staff development.
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Full job description
Create a classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students.Effectively plan and use appropriate instructional interventions, strategies, activities, materials, and equipment to add educational value for each student. ESL, GT, at-risk, etc.Comply with UT-UCS curriculum standards and all relevant policies and procedures UT, UT-UCS, and campus. Implement each student's IEP and 504 accommodations as stated.Establish and maintain open communication with the principal, professional support personnel, teachers, facility staff, parents, and students.Manage student behavior effectively and in accordance with the treatment plan if applicable, the Student Code of Conduct and the student handbook.Conduct ongoing, formal, and informal assessment of student learning. Utilize data effectively to inform instruction.Participate in faculty meetings, committee meetings and staff development as required.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,102 open Special Education Teacher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$55–72K/yr320 salary ranges
- US median$47–48/hr243 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 59 open Special Education Teacher jobs in Texas and 1,102 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Plano ISD (TX)25 open
- Amergis21 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- Special Education Teacher postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (98 postings).
- Education
- 444 of the 1,102 open Special Education Teacher jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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