How to become a Special Education Teacher

Official title: Special Education Teachers

Teaches students with disabilities in public and private special education schools and classes and special kindergartens.

Main tasks

• Assess students' intellectual, physical, social and emotional abilities and limitations to design programmes, lessons and activities that meet their needs
• Use special education methods and strategies to improve students' senses, motor skills, language, thinking and memory as needed
• Teach lessons suited to students with hearing, vision or other impairments, encourage and build their confidence, and develop specialist skills
• Record students' learning and evaluate their progress
• Discuss individual education plans with students, parents, principals and other professionals to support each student's learning

Ways in

• University department: Education & Teaching degrees, Offered by 30 universities in Taiwan
• Technical college: Technician certificate: Orientation and mobility training. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 209 定向行動訓練. Tested at a single level (單一級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Demand for Education jobs is projected at about 444,000 in 2024 and about 435,000 in 2030. (-2%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Special Education Teacher?

Ways in include: Education & Teaching degrees; Technician certificate: Orientation and mobility training.

Is a Special Education Teacher a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change -2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Special Education Teacher?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026