special educational needs assistanttospecial educational needs teacher
A special educational needs assistant already meets 68% of what the special educational needs teacher role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
68%
44.2/ 100
1 Share of the special educational needs teacher role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the special educational needs assistant 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 special educational needs teacher role treats 23 of its required skills as things a special educational needs assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- curriculum objectives
What stands in the way is 9 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 45 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A special educational needs teacher role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a special educational needs assistant background worth leading with.
- already held facilitate motor skill activities management skills
- already held mobility disability health and welfare
- already held visual disability health and welfare
- already held development delays health and welfare
- already held hearing disability health and welfare
- already held communication disorders social sciences, journalism and information
All 45 carried skills, including the 23 the special educational needs teacher role treats as required.
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.
- 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 demonstrate when teaching required
- optional, not held teach braille optional
- optional, not held provide learning support optional
- optional, not held teach kindergarten class content optional
- optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational staff optional
- optional, not held promote the safeguarding of young people optional
- optional, not held teach digital literacy optional
- optional, not held teach sign language optional
- required, not held assist children with special needs in education settings required
- required, not held provide specialised instruction for special needs students required
- required, not held stimulate students' independence required
- optional, not held support people with hearing impairment optional
- required, not held special needs learning equipment required
- optional, not held assessment processes optional
- required, not held disability types required
- optional, not held manage resources for educational purposes optional
- optional, not held maintain students' discipline optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a special educational needs teacher role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assist children with special needs in education settings skill · sector specific
- 02 provide specialised instruction for special needs students skill · sector specific
- 03 special needs learning equipment knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 45 skills that carry over
- already held assess students skill
- already held assess the development of youth skill
- already held assist children in developing personal skills skill
- already held assist students in their learning skill
- already held assist students with equipment skill
- already held curriculum objectives knowledge
- already held disability care knowledge
- already held encourage students to acknowledge their achievements skill
- already held give constructive feedback skill
- already held guarantee students' safety skill
- already held handle children's problems skill
- already held implement care programmes for children skill
- already held instructional strategies knowledge
- already held learning needs analysis knowledge
- already held maintain relations with children's parents skill
- already held manage student relationships skill
- already held monitor children's physical development skill
- already held perform classroom management skill
- already held prepare lesson content skill
- already held social development knowledge
- already held special needs education knowledge
- already held support children's wellbeing skill
- already held support the positiveness of youths skill
- already held advise on lesson plans skill
- already held attend to children's basic physical needs skill
- already held behavioural disorders knowledge
- already held common children's diseases knowledge
- already held communication disorders knowledge
- already held consult students on learning content skill
- already held development delays knowledge
- already held escort students on a field trip skill
- already held facilitate motor skill activities skill
- already held hearing disability knowledge
- already held kindergarten school procedures knowledge
- already held learning difficulties knowledge
- already held liaise with educational support staff skill
- already held mobility disability knowledge
- already held organise creative performance skill
- already held perform playground surveillance skill
- already held primary school procedures knowledge
- already held provide lesson materials skill
- already held secondary school procedures knowledge
- already held visual disability knowledge
- already held work with virtual learning environments skill
- already held workplace sanitation knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held use learning strategies optional
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held teach braille optional
- optional, not held manage resources for educational purposes optional
- optional, not held provide learning support optional
- optional, not held teach kindergarten class content optional
- optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held assessment processes optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational staff optional
- optional, not held maintain students' discipline optional
- optional, not held promote the safeguarding of young people optional
- optional, not held support people with hearing impairment optional
- optional, not held teach digital literacy optional
- optional, not held teach sign language optional
- optional, not held use learning strategies optional
2 held skills the special educational needs teacher role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role facilitate teamwork between students skill
- not needed by the target role provide teacher support 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 special needs learning equipment required
- required, not held disability types required
- optional, not held assessment processes optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
Other moves recorded from special educational needs assistant
- early years special educational needs teacher 76% covered · moderate
- early years teacher 73% covered · moderate
- special educational needs teacher primary school 66% covered · moderate
- Freinet school teacher 63% covered · moderate
Full index of moves from special educational needs assistant
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.