Where a further education teacher can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a further education teacher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Further education teachers organise and teach programmes designed specifically for adult learners. They impart a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from academic areas such as mathematics and history, to trainings for personality development, technical expertise or practical courses like languages and ICT. They teach and support adults aspiring to broaden their knowledge and their personal and professional skills and/or to achieve further qualifications. Further education teachers consider the previous knowledge and the work and life experience of the learners. They individualize their teaching and involve the students in the planning and executing of their learning activities. Further education teachers design reasonable assignments and examinations suitable to their adult learners.
Also known as further education practitioner, further education lecturer, continuing education teacher, sixth form teacher, teacher of further education, sixth form tutor, tutor of further education, practitioner in further education.
Professionals 46 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: language school teacher, 78%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- language school teacher 78% covered · difficulty 31.9
- corporate trainer 67% covered · difficulty 35.2
- hospitality vocational teacher 66% covered · difficulty 42.3
- university teaching assistant 65% covered · difficulty 34.6
- agriculture, forestry and fishery vocational teacher 65% covered · difficulty 43.3
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A further education teacher needs 24 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach further education communication, collaboration and creativity
- training subject expertise education
- use pedagogic strategies for creativity communication, collaboration and creativity
- adapt teaching to target group communication, collaboration and creativity
- show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
- adult education education
- adapt training to labour market information skills
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements management skills
- manage student relationships communication, collaboration and creativity
- instructional strategies education
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a further education teacher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- adult literacy teacher 81% covered · difficulty 24.4
- primary school teacher 70% covered · difficulty 35.6
- digital literacy teacher 67% covered · difficulty 39.3
- secondary school teacher 66% covered · difficulty 39.8
- music instructor 65% covered · difficulty 41.6
- performing arts school dance instructor 64% covered · difficulty 42.6
- special educational needs teacher 63% covered · difficulty 43.8
- learning support teacher 62% covered · difficulty 45
- visual arts teacher 52% covered · difficulty 53.4
- corporate trainer 49% covered · difficulty 56.7
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Further education 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 a further education 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.