Where a special educational needs teacher can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a special educational needs teacher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Special educational needs teachers work with and teach children, young people, and adults with an intellectual or physical disability. They use a range of specialised concepts, strategies and tools to optimise learners' communication, mobility, autonomy, and social integration. They select teaching methods and support resources to enable individual learners to maximise their potential for independent living.
Also known as educator in special educational needs, autism teacher, special education resource teacher, special educational needs professional, special education teacher, SEN teacher, special needs educator, special needs teacher, teacher for hearing impaired children, teacher of special educational needs, teacher in special education needs.
Professionals 69 skills on file 12 career moves 12 above 60% overlap Closest: sign language teacher, 81%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- special educational needs teacher secondary school 80% covered · difficulty 28.5
- Montessori school teacher 79% covered · difficulty 34.4
- secondary school teaching assistant 75% covered · difficulty 28.7
- Steiner school teacher 74% covered · difficulty 37
- teacher of talented and gifted students 73% covered · difficulty 38
- special educational needs itinerant teacher 71% covered · difficulty 34
- primary school teacher 70% covered · difficulty 42.3
- Freinet school teacher 81% covered · difficulty 29.3
- adult literacy teacher 64% covered · difficulty 44.9
- learning support teacher 63% covered · difficulty 43.4
- sign language teacher 81% covered · difficulty 21.9
- further education teacher 63% covered · difficulty 43.8
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A special educational needs teacher needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- special needs learning equipment education
- stimulate students' independence assisting and caring
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students assisting and caring
- assist children with special needs in education settings assisting and caring
- learning needs analysis education
- social development health and welfare
- assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
- implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
- handle children's problems assisting and caring
- special needs education education
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a special educational needs teacher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Special educational needs 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 special educational needs 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.