Occupation Atlasprimary school teaching assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/00674f21-2f8f-4a41-9896-133f7cbe2a6e
primary school teaching assistant
Primary school teaching assistants provide instructional and practical support to primary school teachers. They reinforce instruction with students in need of extra attention and prepare the materials the teacher needs in class. They also perform clerical work, monitor the students' learning progress and behaviour and supervise the students with and without the head teacher present.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SCASocial · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.73
- C Conventional3.65
- A Artistic3.43
- I Investigative2.52
- E Enterprising2.45
- R Realistic2.19
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 Substitute Teachers, Short-Term (25-3031.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
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.
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- maintain students' discipline
- manage student relationships
- perform playground surveillance
- prepare youths for adulthood
- primary school procedures
- provide lesson materials
- provide teacher support
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
Optional (24)
- advise on lesson plans
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- common children's diseases
- consult students on learning content
- curriculum objectives
- disability types
- escort students on a field trip
- facilitate teamwork between students
- first aid
- instructional strategies
- learning difficulties
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain relations with children's parents
- organise creative performance
- perform classroom management
- prepare lesson content
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide after school care
- social development
- teach primary education class content
- teamwork principles
- 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 18 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
early years teaching assistant
15 shared · 4 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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special educational needs assistant
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Freinet school teacher
14 shared · 19 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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Montessori school teacher
14 shared · 20 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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early years special educational needs teacher
13 shared · 21 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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secondary school teaching assistant
12 shared · 7 more of its ownprovide teacher support, handle children's problems, perform playground surveillance, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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early years teacher
12 shared · 17 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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primary school teacher
12 shared · 17 more of its ownimplement care programmes for children, primary school procedures, handle children's problems, encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
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