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13.10Special Education and Teaching

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School Teacher (K–12) SOC 25-2021
School teachers plan and deliver the curriculum, assess what has been learned, manage a classroom and account for every child's progress. ⚠ This page covers elementary, middle, secondary and special education together, because in Florida they share one certification system and differ mainly by which subject examination you sit. ⚠⚠⚠ And it leads with the finding a Florida student most needs: the state ranks around 19th nationally for STARTING pay and 50th for AVERAGE pay. The salary that recruits you is competitive; the one you reach after fifteen years is not.
Special education and teaching — 19 Florida public institutions and 936 credentials. ⚠ Included as a full part of this path rather than an afterthought: it is a shortage area, it has 37,100 annual openings nationally against zero growth, and Florida requires exceptional-student-education content of every teacher.
Speech-Language Pathologist SOC 29-1127
Speech-language pathologists diagnose and treat disorders of speech, language, voice and swallowing — in children who are not talking, in stroke patients who have lost words, in people who cannot safely swallow. ⚠ A median of $97,870 and 17% growth, among the best combinations on this site. ⚠⚠⚠ But the bachelor's is NOT a terminal degree: Florida awards 513 of them a year into 298 master's places, and 89% of the profession holds a master's. This page covers the assistant, the pathologist and the audiologist, because the bachelor's only reaches the first.
Special education and teaching — 19 Florida public institutions. A genuine adjacent destination: a large share of speech-language pathologists work in schools, and exceptional student education is where the same interest goes when the master's route does not open.

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