Job Description:

• 1) Teaches vocational skills to handicapped students: Confers with students, parents, school personnel, and other individuals to plan vocational training that meets needs, interests, and abilities of students.

• 2) Instructs students in areas such as personal-social skills and work-related attitudes and behaviors.

• 3) Develops work opportunities that allow students to experience success in performing tasks of increasing difficulty and that teach work values, such as self-improvement, independence, dependability, productivity, and pride of work.

• 4) Conducts field trips to enable students to learn about job activities and to explore work environments.

• 5) May teach academic skills to students.

• 6) May instruct students in one or more vocational skills, such as woodworking, building maintenance, cosmetology, food preparation, gardening, sewing, or nurse aiding.