Skip to Main Content

Special Education Teachers

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

One of the best ways to gain experience in the field is to work as a student teacher; this is a requirement of most teacher-education programs.

To be successful in this field, you need to have many of the same personal characteristics as regular classroom teachers: the ability to communicate, a broad knowledge of the arts, sciences, and history, and a love of children. In addition, you will need a great deal of patience and persistence. You need to be creative, flexible, cooperative, and accepting of differences in others. Finally, you need to be emotionally stable and consistent in your dealings with students.