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Special Education Teachers, Middle School
Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities.
- Sector: Education
- Preparation: Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed
- O*NET code: 25-2057.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
a major part of the work — rated 80/100 for importance.
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
a major part of the work — rated 75/100 for importance.
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Working with Computers
a major part of the work — rated 71/100 for importance.
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Assisting and Caring for Others
a regular part of the work — rated 65/100 for importance.
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Training and Teaching Others
a regular part of the work — rated 65/100 for importance.
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Coaching and Developing Others
a regular part of the work — rated 64/100 for importance.
Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Learning Strategies
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Active Learning
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Instructing
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Social Perceptiveness
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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English Language
Needed at expert level (80/100), and rated 88/100 for importance.
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Education and Training
Needed at expert level (78/100), and rated 86/100 for importance.
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Mathematics
Needed at a high level (68/100), and rated 74/100 for importance.
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Administrative
Needed at a high level (66/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Problem Sensitivity
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
A four-year bachelor's degree is the usual entry ticket.
Experience
Two to four years of related work, internships or research on top of the degree.
Training
Most of the learning happens before you are hired, not after.
What it pays
These are typical education compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Special Education Teachers, Middle School specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Top University Admin
$90k – $180k
Public School Districts
$55k – $85k
Charter & Private Schools
$45k – $75k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Special Education Teachers, Middle School. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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