Where an early years teacher can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an early years teacher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Early years teachers instruct students, primarily young children, in basic subjects and creative play with the aim of developing their social and intellectual skills in an informal way in preparation for future formal learning. They create lesson plans, possibly in accordance with a fixed curriculum, for an entire class or smaller groups and test the students on the content. These lesson plans, based on basic subjects, can include the instruction of number, letter, and colour recognition, days of the week, categorisation of animals and transport vehicles etc. Early years teachers also supervise students outside the classroom on school grounds and enforce rules of behaviour there as well.
Also known as preschool teacher, kindergarten teacher, preprimary school teacher, nursery teacher.
Professionals 47 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: special educational needs assistant, 76%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- special educational needs assistant 76% covered · difficulty 29.1
- Steiner school teacher 74% covered · difficulty 36.9
- special educational needs teacher primary school 71% covered · difficulty 41.3
- teacher of talented and gifted students 70% covered · difficulty 41.2
- special educational needs teacher 69% covered · difficulty 43.8
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An early years teacher needs 29 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach kindergarten class content communication, collaboration and creativity
- kindergarten school procedures education
- social development health and welfare
- assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
- implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
- handle children's problems assisting and caring
- monitor children's physical development information skills
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements management skills
- support children's wellbeing assisting and caring
- support the positiveness of youths communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an early years teacher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- primary school teaching assistant 75% covered · difficulty 31.7
- early years teaching assistant 74% covered · difficulty 33.3
- special educational needs assistant 73% covered · difficulty 34
- secondary school teaching assistant 66% covered · difficulty 41.4
- adult literacy teacher 56% covered · difficulty 51.6
- survival instructor 36% covered · difficulty 68.9
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Early years teacher is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an early years teacher’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.