child care coordinatortoearly years teaching assistant
A child care coordinator already meets 36% of what the early years teaching assistant role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.
36%
63.5/ 100
1 Share of the early years teaching assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the child care coordinator 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 this move works
A early years teaching assistant role treats 7 of its required skills as things a child care coordinator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- assist children in developing personal skills
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- kindergarten school procedures
- monitor children's physical development
- perform playground surveillance
What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A early years teaching assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a child care coordinator background worth leading with.
- already held provide after school care assisting and caring
- already held kindergarten school procedures education
- already held assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
- already held implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
- already held handle children's problems assisting and caring
- already held monitor children's physical development information skills
All 12 carried skills, including the 7 the early years teaching assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 23 missing skills fall into 6 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.
- required, not held assist students in their learning required
- required, not held give constructive feedback required
- required, not held provide lesson materials required
- required, not held provide teacher support required
- required, not held support the positiveness of youths required
- optional, not held teach kindergarten class content optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational support staff optional
- optional, not held prepare lesson content optional
- required, not held assess the development of youth required
- required, not held encourage students to acknowledge their achievements required
- required, not held maintain students' discipline required
- optional, not held facilitate teamwork between students optional
- optional, not held assess students optional
- optional, not held organise creative performance optional
- optional, not held perform classroom management optional
- required, not held assist students with equipment required
- required, not held attend to children's basic physical needs required
- required, not held guarantee students' safety required
- optional, not held escort students on a field trip optional
- required, not held workplace sanitation required
- optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
- optional, not held learning difficulties optional
- optional, not held common children's diseases optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a early years teaching assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess the development of youth skill · sector specific
- 02 assist students in their learning skill · cross sector
- 03 assist students with equipment skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 12 skills that carry over
- already held assist children in developing personal skills skill
- already held handle children's problems skill
- already held implement care programmes for children skill
- already held kindergarten school procedures knowledge
- already held monitor children's physical development skill
- already held perform playground surveillance skill
- already held support children's wellbeing skill
- already held first aid knowledge
- already held maintain relations with children's parents skill
- already held promote the safeguarding of young people skill
- already held provide after school care skill
- already held teamwork principles knowledge
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held facilitate teamwork between students optional
- optional, not held teach kindergarten class content optional
- optional, not held assess students optional
- optional, not held common children's diseases optional
- optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
- optional, not held escort students on a field trip optional
- optional, not held learning difficulties optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational support staff optional
- optional, not held organise creative performance optional
- optional, not held perform classroom management optional
- optional, not held prepare lesson content optional
21 held skills the early years teaching assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role animate in the outdoors skill
- not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
- not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
- not needed by the target role assist in the organisation of school events skill
- not needed by the target role child protection knowledge
- not needed by the target role contribute to the safeguarding of children skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate educational programmes skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate events skill
- not needed by the target role counselling methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role determine child welfare skill
- not needed by the target role entertain people skill
- not needed by the target role instruct in outdoor activities skill
- not needed by the target role monitor event activities skill
- not needed by the target role outdoor activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role play with children skill
- not needed by the target role primary school procedures knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
- not needed by the target role promote inclusion skill
- not needed by the target role recreation activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role sporting events knowledge
- not needed by the target role supervise children 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.
- required, not held workplace sanitation required
- optional, not held common children's diseases optional
- optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
- optional, not held learning difficulties optional
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.