Where a nursery school head teacher can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a nursery school head teacher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Nursery school head teachers manage the day-to-day activities of a kindergarten or nursery school. They manage staff, make decisions concerning admissions and are responsible for meeting curriculum standards, which are age-appropriate for kindergarten students and facilitate social and behavioural development education. They also ensure the school meets the national education requirements set by law.
Also known as preschool headteacher, head teacher of nursery, nursery school director, nursery school headmaster, kindergarten headmaster, nursery headteacher, preschool head teacher, nursery school headteacher, kindergarten principal, head teacher of nursery school, kindergarten director, headteacher of nursery school.
Managers 51 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: primary school head teacher, 76%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A nursery school head 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.
- apply for government funding information skills
- kindergarten school procedures education
- analyse staff capacity management skills
- implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
- curriculum standards education
- education law business, administration and law
- develop organisational policies management skills
- cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
- identify process improvements management skills
- supervise educational staff management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a nursery school head teacher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- primary school head teacher 79% covered · difficulty 27.4
- secondary school head teacher 75% covered · difficulty 32.5
- deputy head teacher 68% covered · difficulty 40
- secondary school department head 61% covered · difficulty 46.1
- further education principal 56% covered · difficulty 52.2
- head of higher education institutions 54% covered · difficulty 53.6
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Nursery school head teacher is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 nursery school head 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.