Where a learning mentor can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a learning mentor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Learning mentors support underperforming students both inside and outside of the classroom in order to increase their academic success. They assist students experiencing (multiple) disadvantages, such as learning difficulties, behavioural issues, and attendance problems, and also assist gifted students who are under-challenged. They may also work with adult students in the further education system. Learning mentors develop schedules and action plans with the students in order to plan the necessary mentoring activities and monitor progress. They also liaise with the students' teachers, educational psychologists, school social workers and, if necessary, with the student's parents, in order to improve the student's educational development.
Also known as specialist learning mentor, pastoral support mentor, support mentor, senior learning mentor, pastoral support officer, pastoral manager, learning support mentor, pastoral mentor.
Professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: educational counsellor, 53%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A learning mentor needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- counsel students communication, collaboration and creativity
- communication disorders social sciences, journalism and information
- learning needs analysis education
- show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
- behavioural disorders social sciences, journalism and information
- consult student's support system communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor student's behaviour management skills
- communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements management skills
- oversee extra-curricular activities management skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a learning mentor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- educational counsellor 72% covered · difficulty 30.7
- education welfare officer 71% covered · difficulty 31.7
- educational psychologist 69% covered · difficulty 33.3
- learning support teacher 63% covered · difficulty 39.6
- special educational needs itinerant teacher 56% covered · difficulty 45.8
- academic support officer 49% covered · difficulty 52.1
- academic advisor 36% covered · difficulty 63.3
- career guidance advisor 33% covered · difficulty 65.7
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Learning mentor 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 learning mentor’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.