Occupation Atlasspecial educational needs assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1f137f0b-7097-4583-9d1b-b69e57369319
special educational needs assistant
Special educational needs assistants assist special education teachers in their classroom duties. They tend to the physical needs of students with a variety of disabilities and help out with tasks such as bathroom breaks, bus rides, eating and classroom switches. They also provide instructional support to students, teachers and parents and prepare lesson programmes. Special educational needs assistants supply support for students tailored to their specific needs, help out with challenging assignments and monitor students' progress and classroom behaviour.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
SCASocial · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social7.00
- C Conventional3.57
- A Artistic3.34
- I Investigative3.29
- E Enterprising2.14
- R Realistic1.98
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Teaching Assistants, Special Education (25-9043.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- disability care
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- facilitate motor skill activities
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- learning difficulties
- learning needs analysis
- manage student relationships
- monitor children's physical development
- perform playground surveillance
- provide lesson materials
- provide teacher support
- social development
- special needs education
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
Optional (24)
- advise on lesson plans
- assess students
- behavioural disorders
- common children's diseases
- communication disorders
- consult students on learning content
- curriculum objectives
- development delays
- escort students on a field trip
- facilitate teamwork between students
- hearing disability
- instructional strategies
- kindergarten school procedures
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain relations with children's parents
- mobility disability
- organise creative performance
- perform classroom management
- prepare lesson content
- primary school procedures
- secondary school procedures
- visual disability
- work with virtual learning environments
- workplace sanitation
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 23 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
early years special educational needs teacher
19 shared · 15 more of its ownlearning needs analysis, social development, assist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs
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special educational needs teacher
17 shared · 15 more of its ownlearning needs analysis, social development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children
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early years teaching assistant
16 shared · 3 more of its ownprovide teacher support, assist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, implement care programmes for children
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Freinet school teacher
16 shared · 17 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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Montessori school teacher
16 shared · 18 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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primary school teaching assistant
15 shared · 3 more of its ownprovide teacher support, assist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, implement care programmes for children
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early years teacher
15 shared · 14 more of its ownsocial development, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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special educational needs teacher primary school
15 shared · 18 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, special needs education
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