Teaches academic and living skills to sight impaired students, and promotes students' social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. Registration or licensing is required.
Tasks & Responsibilities
Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities, exceptional intellectual gifts, or specific problems of language and culture
Planning, organising and implementing special programs to provide remedial or advanced tuition
Administering various forms of assessment and interpreting the results
Teaching basic academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to hearing and sight impaired students
Devising instructional materials, methods and aids to assist in training and rehabilitation
Advising, instructing and counselling parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques
Stimulating and developing interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students
Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
Alternative Titles
• Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual
• physical
• social and emotional disabilities
• exceptional intellectual gifts
• or specific problems of language and culture
• Planning
• organising and implementing special programs to provide remedial or advanced tuition
• Administering various forms of assessment and interpreting the results
• Teaching basic academic subjects
• and practical and self-help skills to hearing and sight impaired students
Assessment Documents
Teaching qualification transcripts
Practicum evidence
Registration (if applicable)
Passport
English test
Check AITSL website for current requirements.
Teacher of the Sight Impaired (ANZSCO 241513) | Australian Occupation Guide