Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

academic support officertospecial educational needs itinerant teacher

A academic support officer already meets 44% of what the special educational needs itinerant teacher role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From academic support officer
44%
Overlap1
To special educational needs itinerant teacher
15 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
58.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

44%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

58.4/ 100

1 Share of the special educational needs itinerant teacher role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the academic support officer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A special educational needs itinerant teacher role treats 10 of its required skills as things a academic support officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • assess students
  • assessment processes
  • communicate with youth
  • curriculum objectives
  • give constructive feedback
  • guarantee students' safety

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 15 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A special educational needs itinerant teacher role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a academic support officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held education law business, administration and law
  • already held monitor student's behaviour management skills
  • already held cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held liaise with educational staff communication, collaboration and creativity

All 15 carried skills, including the 10 the special educational needs itinerant teacher role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 24 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 8 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held advise on strategies for special needs students required
  • required, not held adapt teaching to student's capabilities required
  • required, not held apply intercultural teaching strategies required
  • required, not held apply teaching strategies required
  • required, not held assist students in their learning required
  • required, not held demonstrate when teaching required
  • required, not held prepare lesson content required
  • required, not held provide lesson materials required
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
  • optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
  • optional, not held consult student's support system optional
  • optional, not held counsel clients optional
  • optional, not held provide teacher support optional
02 assisting and caring 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held assist students with equipment required
  • optional, not held assist children with special needs in education settings optional
  • optional, not held provide specialised instruction for special needs students optional
  • optional, not held provide social counselling optional
03 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • required, not held behavioural disorders required
04 education 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
05 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held secondary school procedures optional
06 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held keep records of attendance optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a special educational needs itinerant teacher role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 15 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assess students skill
  • already held assessment processes knowledge
  • already held communicate with youth skill
  • already held curriculum objectives knowledge
  • already held give constructive feedback skill
  • already held guarantee students' safety skill
  • already held liaise with educational staff skill
  • already held liaise with educational support staff skill
  • already held monitor student's behaviour skill
  • already held show consideration for student's situation skill
  • already held assist in the organisation of school events skill
  • already held cooperate with education professionals skill
  • already held education law knowledge
  • already held learning difficulties knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held assist students with their enrolment optional
14 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist children with special needs in education settings optional
  • optional, not held assist students with their enrolment optional
  • optional, not held provide specialised instruction for special needs students optional
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
  • optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
  • optional, not held consult student's support system optional
  • optional, not held counsel clients optional
  • optional, not held keep records of attendance optional
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held provide social counselling optional
  • optional, not held provide teacher support optional
  • optional, not held secondary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
21 held skills the special educational needs itinerant teacher role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role communication knowledge
  • not needed by the target role coordinate educational programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role counsel students skill
  • not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
  • not needed by the target role electronic communication knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify education needs skill
  • not needed by the target role manage access programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee extra-curricular activities skill
  • not needed by the target role project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote education course skill
  • not needed by the target role promote social awareness skill
  • not needed by the target role provide information on study programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role recruit student ambassador skill
  • not needed by the target role school psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role support children's wellbeing skill
  • not needed by the target role tackle issues that block academic progress skill
  • not needed by the target role teach university class skill
  • not needed by the target role tutor students skill
  • not needed by the target role university procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role work with virtual learning environments skill
  • not needed by the target role write work-related reports skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held behavioural disorders required
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held secondary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
Index

Other moves recorded from academic support officer

Full index of moves from academic support officer

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.