Where a secondary school teaching assistant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a secondary school teaching assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Secondary school teaching assistants provide various support services to secondary school teachers such as instructional and practical support. They help with the preparation of lesson materials needed in class and reinforce instructions with students in need of extra attention. They also perform basic clerical duties, monitor the students' learning progress and behaviour and supervise the students with and without the teacher present.
Also known as teaching assistant in secondary schools, assistant in secondary school teaching, secondary school instructional assistant, secondary school teaching aide, high school teaching assistant, secondary school paraprofessional, secondary school assistant, secondary school TA, secondary education teaching assistant.
Service and sales workers 47 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: primary school teaching assistant, 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 secondary school teaching assistant needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach secondary education class content communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide teacher support communication, collaboration and creativity
- handle children's problems assisting and caring
- monitor student's behaviour management skills
- perform playground surveillance assisting and caring
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements management skills
- secondary school procedures business, administration and law
- support children's wellbeing assisting and caring
- support the positiveness of youths communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain students' discipline management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a secondary school teaching assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- special educational needs teacher 75% covered · difficulty 28.7
- Montessori school teacher 71% covered · difficulty 33.9
- primary school teacher 69% covered · difficulty 35
- Freinet school teacher 69% covered · difficulty 35.2
- early years special educational needs teacher 68% covered · difficulty 36.4
- primary school teaching assistant 67% covered · difficulty 37.4
- secondary school teacher 66% covered · difficulty 39.1
- tutor 48% covered · difficulty 55.1
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Secondary school teaching assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 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.