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The example

A special education teacher resume, in full.

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Yolanda Pierce

Special Education Teacher — Resource and Inclusion, Middle Grades

Aurora, Illinois

Professional Summary

Special education teacher with eleven years across self-contained, resource, and co-taught inclusion settings, currently carrying a caseload of eighteen students in grades 6-8. Writes and defends her own IEPs, and has mentored four early-career special educators through their first year.

Experience

Special Education Teacher, Resource and Co-Taught Inclusion

Prairie Ridge Middle School • Aurora, IL

Aug 2021 - Present

  • Carry a caseload of eighteen students across grades 6-8, split between a resource period and co-taught math and ELA blocks.
  • Redesigned how the team schedules service minutes so students stop missing the same core class twice a week, which the building has kept for two years running.
  • Led the annual review cycle for the full caseload, including two due-process files that closed without hearing.

Special Education Teacher, Self-Contained Cross-Categorical

Oakhaven Elementary School • Joliet, IL

Aug 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Taught a self-contained cross-categorical classroom of nine students with a paraprofessional team of three.
  • Built the classroom's data collection into a single weekly routine so behaviour plans were reviewed against evidence rather than impression.
  • Ran the transition meetings that moved five students into general education placements.

Special Education Teacher

Fox Valley Community Unit District • Batavia, IL

Aug 2014 - Jun 2017

  • First placement, covering resource support across two elementary buildings.
  • Took on functional behaviour assessments in the second year after completing district training, and wrote the resulting intervention plans.

Education

Illinois State University

Master of Education • Special Education

Aug 2016 - May 2018

Northern Illinois University

Bachelor of Science • Elementary Education

Aug 2010 - May 2014

Skills

IEP development and annual reviewCo-teaching modelsFunctional behaviour assessmentBehaviour intervention plansProgress monitoringTransition planningDue process complianceAssistive technologyReading interventionParaprofessional supervisionCrisis de-escalationParent conferencing

Certifications

Illinois Professional Educator License — Learning Behavior Specialist I

Illinois State Board of Education

Jun 2014

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Certification

Crisis Prevention Institute

Sep 2024

Assistive Technology Applications Certificate

Illinois Assistive Technology Program

Mar 2022

Section by section

What each part of this resume is doing.

Summary

The summary leads with caseload and setting, because a Special Education Teacher is screened first on whether they have worked in resource, inclusion, or self-contained rooms.

Experience

Each entry names the setting and the compliance work alongside the teaching, since a Special Education Teacher is accountable for paperwork that carries legal weight.

Skills

Skills name the assessments and behaviour frameworks a Special Education Teacher is expected to run without being trained on them first.

credentials

The endorsement is listed with the state that issued it, because a Special Education Teacher application is matched against it before anything else is read.

Before you apply

What K-12 hiring committees look for

A panel hiring a Special Education Teacher reads for caseload evidence and whether you have carried a due-process file through to resolution. Co-teaching experience counts for more than the subject you originally trained in.

There are 5,120 open Special Education Teacher roles, concentrated in New York.

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Common questions

Writing a special education teacher resume.

Caseload size, the settings you have taught in, and the assessments you administer. There are 5,120 open Special Education Teacher roles to match it against.

Yes, and name the model you worked in. A Special Education Teacher who has only ever taught alone reads as a risk for an inclusion placement.

Endorsements are issued per state and do not always transfer. Name yours and the state behind it, since most Special Education Teacher postings sit in New York.