From special educational needs assistant to special educational needs teacher
17 of the 32 essential skills of a special educational needs teacher are already essential for a special educational needs assistant — about 53% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 17
- skills carry over
- 15
- would be new
- 53%
- of the target job covered
- 32
- essential skills of a special educational needs teacher
What a special educational needs teacher does
Special educational needs teachers work with and teach children, young people, and adults with an intellectual or physical disability. They use a range of specialised concepts, strategies and tools to optimise learners' communication, mobility, autonomy, and social integration. They select teaching methods and support resources to enable individual learners to maximise their potential for independent living.
What carries over
17 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- disability care
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- learning needs analysis
- manage student relationships
- monitor children's physical development
- social development
- special needs education
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
What would be new
15 skillsEssential for a special educational needs teacher and not for a special educational needs assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- disability types
- instructional strategies
- maintain relations with children's parents
- perform classroom management
- prepare lesson content
- provide specialised instruction for special needs students
- special needs learning equipment
- stimulate students' independence
Other moves from special educational needs assistant
2 roles- early years special educational needs teacher19 skills in common
- Montessori school teacher16 skills in common
← special educational needs assistantspecial educational needs teacher →The other way round
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How far are you from being a special educational needs teacher?
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