OSCA 2024 · 251431 · Skill level 1
Special Education Teacher: OSCA 251431
ABS OSCA 2024 v1.0 · visa lists checked 21 October 2026
Special Education Teacher is OSCA 2024 code 251431. It corresponds to ANZSCO 241511 Special Needs Teacher (in part), which is on the CSOL and MLTSSL. Visa lists still use the ANZSCO code.
ANZSCO equivalent
ANZSCO code for OSCA 251431
Skilled visa lists still use ANZSCO codes, so this is the code that decides your visa options.
ANZSCO 241511 · in part
Special Needs Teacher
On the Core Skills Occupation List, Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List.
Visas for ANZSCO 241511
The job
What a special education teacher does
Teaches academic and living skills to early childhood, primary and secondary school students with particular learning difficulties using various techniques, and promotes students' social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.
Skill level 1: Bachelor degree or higher, or at least 5 years of relevant experience
Registration or licensing is required.
Main tasks
Main tasks
- Assesses students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, sensory, physical, social and emotional disabilities, or specific problems of language and culture
- Develops and implements individualised learning, behaviour and wellbeing plans to maximise students' growth
- Teaches students with physical, social, intellectual, emotional and linguistic needs
- Enhances student engagement through enriched differentiated and individualised learning programs
- Administers various forms of assessment and interprets the results
- Prepares and maintains students' data, and records and submits reports as required
- Advises, instructs and counsels parents and teachers on the availability and use of special techniques and therapies that benefit students' growth
Unit group 2514
Other occupations in Specialist Education Teachers
Questions
OSCA 251431: common questions
What is the OSCA code for special education teacher?
What is the ANZSCO code for OSCA 251431?
Is Special Education Teacher on Australia's skilled occupation lists?
Does Home Affairs use OSCA codes for visas?
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA 2024 v1.0 (CC BY 4.0); Department of Home Affairs, checked 21 October 2026. General information only, not immigration advice.
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