Where a secondary school teacher can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a secondary school teacher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Secondary school teachers provide education to students, commonly children and young adults, in a secondary school setting. They are usually specialist subject teachers, who instruct in their own field of study. They prepare lesson plans and materials, monitor the students' progress, assist individually when necessary and evaluate their knowledge and performance through assignments, tests and examinations.
Also known as science teacher, language teacher, high school teacher, geography teacher, physical education teacher, academy school teacher, art teacher, maths teacher, religious education teacher, secondary school teaching assistant, comprehensive school teacher, home economics teacher.
Professionals 96 skills on file 12 career moves 12 above 60% overlap Closest: music teacher secondary school, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- music teacher secondary school 80% covered · difficulty 30.5
- physical education teacher secondary school 75% covered · difficulty 38.1
- special educational needs teacher secondary school 70% covered · difficulty 41.2
- special educational needs itinerant teacher 69% covered · difficulty 36.1
- drama teacher secondary school 69% covered · difficulty 43.8
- language school teacher 67% covered · difficulty 42.8
- secondary school teaching assistant 66% covered · difficulty 39.1
- hospitality vocational teacher 66% covered · difficulty 42.3
- further education teacher 66% covered · difficulty 39.8
- agriculture, forestry and fishery vocational teacher 65% covered · difficulty 43.3
- adult literacy teacher 65% covered · difficulty 44
- teacher of talented and gifted students 64% covered · difficulty 46.9
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A secondary school teacher needs 30 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- provide learning support communication, collaboration and creativity
- post-secondary school procedures education
- monitor student's behaviour management skills
- cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
- secondary school procedures business, administration and law
- assign homework management skills
- maintain students' discipline management skills
- pedagogy education
- compile course material communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage student relationships communication, collaboration and creativity
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Secondary school 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 secondary school 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.