Jobs / Education and social services / 25-2055.00
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
Teach academic, social, and life skills to kindergarten 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.
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Can agents do the work of special education teachers, kindergarten?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Education and social services:
- Task levelUnexploredNo task-level benchmark in our collection tests teaching, counseling, or casework.
- Project levelPartialThin, adjacent evidence only. GDPval, which spans 44 occupations, is the one benchmark in our collection mapped here. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all GDPval occupations. No benchmark tests work with students or clients.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in education and social services, not always this occupation's tasks.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Instruct students with disabilities in academic subjects, using a variety of techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, or repetition to reinforce learning and meet students' varying needs.
- Prepare objectives, outlines, or other materials for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or school or state requirements.
- Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, or administrative regulations.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, or social development.
- Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
- Meet with parents or guardians to discuss their children's progress, advise them on using community resources, or teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
- Modify the general kindergarten education curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Confer with parents, guardians, teachers, counselors, or administrators to resolve students' behavioral or academic problems.
Other job titles for this occupation (38)
Deaf Teacher · Emotional Disabilities Teacher · Hearing Impaired Itinerant Teacher (HI Itinerant Teacher) · K-1 SPED Teacher (Kindergarten through First Grade Special Education Teacher) · Kindergarten SPED Teacher (Kindergarten Special Education Teacher) · Life Skills Teacher · Special Education Inclusion Teacher · Special Education Kindergarten Teacher · Special Education Resource Teacher · SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher) · Academic Interventionist · Adapted Physical Education Teacher · Blind Teacher · Braille Teacher · Cross-Categorical Special Education Teacher · Developmentally Delayed Special Education Teacher (DD Special Education Teacher) · Early Interventionist · Emotional Support Teacher · Exceptional Needs Teacher · Hearing Impaired Teacher · Inclusion Special Education Teacher · Integrated Program Teacher · Learning and Behavioral Disabilities Teacher · Learning Disabilities Teacher · Lip Reading Teacher · Mentally Retarded Teacher · Mildly Disabled Student Special Education Teacher · Multi-Handicapped Students Special Education Teacher · Physically Impaired Teacher · Primary Special Education Teacher · Primary Special Educator · Profound Mental Handicaps Special Education Teacher · Resource Room Special Education Teacher · Self Contained Special Education Teacher · Severe Emotional Behavioral Disorders Teacher · Severe Mental Handicaps Special Education Teacher · Sign Language Teacher · Special Needs Teacher