Music teacher secondary school to music instructor
A music teacher secondary school already meets 80% of what the music instructor role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
29.1/ 100
1 How much of what a music instructor is expected to do is already part of a music teacher secondary school’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the music instructor role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A music instructor role treats 24 of its required skills as things a music teacher secondary school already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- compile course material
- curriculum objectives
What stands in the way is 2 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 40 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A music instructor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a music teacher secondary school background worth leading with.
- already held demonstrate a technical foundation in musical instruments handling and moving
- already held teach music principles communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held improvise music communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held orchestrate music communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held musical notation arts and humanities
- already held subject of music coaching education
All 40 carried skills, including the 24 the music instructor role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 18 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn assessment processes required
- optional, not held scientific research methodology optional
- still to learn maintain safe working conditions in performing arts required
- optional, not held adapt training to labour market optional
- optional, not held assist students with their dissertation optional
- optional, not held collaborate with music librarians optional
- optional, not held create musical forms optional
- optional, not held create musical structures optional
- optional, not held develop drama production process optional
- optional, not held perform exercises for artistic performance optional
- optional, not held promote the conservatory optional
- optional, not held transpose music optional
- optional, not held develop professional network optional
- optional, not held provide career counselling optional
- optional, not held organise musical events optional
- optional, not held develop learning curriculum optional
- optional, not held teamwork principles optional
- optional, not held movement techniques optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries a music instructor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 maintain safe working conditions in performing arts practise this
- 02 assessment processes study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 40 skills that carry over
- already held adapt teaching to student's capabilities skill
- already held apply intercultural teaching strategies skill
- already held apply teaching strategies skill
- already held assess students skill
- already held compile course material skill
- already held curriculum objectives knowledge
- already held demonstrate a technical foundation in musical instruments skill
- already held demonstrate when teaching skill
- already held develop course outline skill
- already held give constructive feedback skill
- already held guarantee students' safety skill
- already held instructional strategies knowledge
- already held liaise with educational support staff skill
- already held manage student relationships skill
- already held monitor developments in field of expertise skill
- already held musical genres knowledge
- already held musical instruments knowledge
- already held musical notation knowledge
- already held musical theory knowledge
- already held play musical instruments skill
- already held prepare lesson content skill
- already held read musical score skill
- already held subject of music coaching knowledge
- already held teach music principles skill
- already held assist in the organisation of school events skill
- already held assist students in their learning skill
- already held assist students with equipment skill
- already held facilitate teamwork between students skill
- already held history of musical instruments knowledge
- already held improvise music skill
- already held keep records of attendance skill
- already held learning difficulties knowledge
- already held maintain musical instruments skill
- already held manage resources for educational purposes skill
- already held music literature knowledge
- already held orchestrate music skill
- already held perform classroom management skill
- already held provide lesson materials skill
- already held supervise music groups skill
- already held work with virtual learning environments skill
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assist students with their dissertation optional
- optional, not held collaborate with music librarians optional
- optional, not held create musical forms optional
- optional, not held create musical structures optional
- optional, not held develop drama production process optional
- optional, not held organise musical events optional
- optional, not held perform exercises for artistic performance optional
- optional, not held promote the conservatory optional
- optional, not held transpose music optional
- optional, not held adapt training to labour market optional
- optional, not held develop learning curriculum optional
- optional, not held develop professional network optional
- optional, not held movement techniques optional
- optional, not held provide career counselling optional
- optional, not held scientific research methodology optional
- optional, not held teamwork principles optional
19 held skills the music instructor role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role adolescent socialisation behaviour knowledge
- not needed by the target role arrange parent teacher meeting skill
- not needed by the target role assign homework skill
- not needed by the target role consult student's support system skill
- not needed by the target role disability types knowledge
- not needed by the target role escort students on a field trip skill
- not needed by the target role identify cross-curricular links with other subject areas skill
- not needed by the target role identify learning disorders skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with educational staff skill
- not needed by the target role maintain students' discipline skill
- not needed by the target role monitor educational developments skill
- not needed by the target role monitor student's behaviour skill
- not needed by the target role oversee extra-curricular activities skill
- not needed by the target role perform playground surveillance skill
- not needed by the target role post-secondary school procedures knowledge
- not needed by the target role prepare youths for adulthood skill
- not needed by the target role recognise indicators of gifted student skill
- not needed by the target role secondary school procedures knowledge
- not needed by the target role use pedagogic strategies for creativity 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.
- still to learn assessment processes required
- optional, not held movement techniques optional
- optional, not held scientific research methodology optional
- optional, not held teamwork principles optional
Other moves recorded from music teacher secondary school
Common questions about this move
Can a music teacher secondary school become a music instructor?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. A music teacher secondary school already covers 80% of what a music instructor is expected to do: 40 skills carry over, 24 of which the music instructor role treats as required.
What skills does a music teacher secondary school need to become a music instructor?
2 required skills are missing, plus 16 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by education. The single most important is maintain safe working conditions in performing arts.
How hard is the move from music teacher secondary school to music instructor?
Its learning distance is 29.1 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.