Where a teacher of talented and gifted students can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a teacher of talented and gifted students already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Teachers of talented and gifted students teach students who have strong skills in one or more areas. They monitor the students’ progress, suggest extra activities to stretch and stimulate their skills, introduce them to new topics and subjects, assign homework and grade papers and tests, and finally they provide emotional support when needed. Teachers working with talented and gifted students know how to foster their interest and make them comfortable with their intelligence.
Also known as teacher for talented pupils, teacher for students with high learning potential, talented and gifted pupils co-ordinator, teacher for gifted students, teacher for pupils with high learning potential, teacher for gifted pupils, teacher for talented students, talented and gifted pupils lead teacher, gifted pupils teacher, talented and gifted students lead teacher.
Professionals 64 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: physics teacher secondary school, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- physics teacher secondary school 80% covered · difficulty 25.7
- religious education teacher at secondary school 80% covered · difficulty 27.1
- modern languages teacher secondary school 79% covered · difficulty 29.3
- Steiner school teacher 79% covered · difficulty 32
- mathematics teacher at secondary school 78% covered · difficulty 28.7
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A teacher of talented and gifted students needs 35 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- support gifted students communication, collaboration and creativity
- language teaching methods education
- learning needs analysis education
- learning technologies education
- implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
- handle children's problems assisting and caring
- special needs education education
- monitor children's physical development information skills
- recognise indicators of gifted student management skills
- counselling methods health and welfare
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a teacher of talented and gifted students does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- primary school teacher 76% covered · difficulty 34.1
- special educational needs teacher 73% covered · difficulty 38
- special educational needs teacher primary school 72% covered · difficulty 38.1
- Steiner school teacher 72% covered · difficulty 38.7
- early years special educational needs teacher 71% covered · difficulty 39.5
- early years teacher 70% covered · difficulty 41.2
- secondary school teacher 64% covered · difficulty 46.9
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Teacher of talented and gifted students 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 teacher of talented and gifted students’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.