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Where a primary school teaching assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a primary school teaching assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Primary school teaching assistants provide instructional and practical support to primary school teachers. They reinforce instruction with students in need of extra attention and prepare the materials the teacher needs in class. They also perform clerical work, monitor the students' learning progress and behaviour and supervise the students with and without the head teacher present.

Also known as primary school TA, primary school assistant, primary school paraprofessional, elementary school teaching assistant, primary school teaching aide, primary school instructional assistant, primary education teaching assistant, teaching assistant in primary schools.

Service and sales workers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: early years teacher, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from primary school teaching assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a primary school teaching assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A primary school teaching assistant needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

provide teacher support communication, collaboration and creativity
assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
primary school procedures education
handle children's problems assisting and caring
perform playground surveillance assisting and caring
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

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a primary school teaching assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Primary school teaching assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a primary school teaching assistant’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.