early years teachertospecial educational needs teacher
A early years teacher already meets 69% of what the special educational needs teacher role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.
69%
43.8/ 100
1 Share of the special educational needs teacher role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the early years teacher 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 25 of its required skills as things a early years teacher already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
What stands in the way is 7 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 42 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 early years teacher background worth leading with.
- already held use learning strategies information skills
- already held teach kindergarten class content communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held organise creative performance management skills
- already held kindergarten school procedures education
- already held social development health and welfare
- already held common children's diseases health and welfare
All 42 carried skills, including the 25 the special educational needs teacher role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 27 missing skills fall into 9 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 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 disability care required
- required, not held disability types required
- optional, not held development delays optional
- optional, not held hearing disability optional
- optional, not held mobility disability optional
- optional, not held visual disability optional
- required, not held special needs learning equipment required
- required, not held learning needs analysis required
- optional, not held primary school procedures optional
- optional, not held teach braille optional
- optional, not held provide learning support optional
- optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held advise on lesson plans optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational staff optional
- optional, not held teach digital literacy optional
- optional, not held teach sign language optional
- optional, not held behavioural disorders optional
- optional, not held communication disorders optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
3 further areas 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 disability care knowledge · sector specific
- 03 provide specialised instruction for special needs students skill · 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 42 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 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 demonstrate when teaching skill
- 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 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 assessment processes knowledge
- already held attend to children's basic physical needs skill
- already held common children's diseases knowledge
- already held consult students on learning content skill
- already held escort students on a field trip skill
- already held kindergarten school procedures knowledge
- already held learning difficulties knowledge
- already held liaise with educational support staff skill
- already held maintain students' discipline skill
- already held manage resources for educational purposes skill
- already held organise creative performance skill
- already held perform playground surveillance skill
- already held promote the safeguarding of young people skill
- already held provide lesson materials skill
- already held teach kindergarten class content skill
- already held use learning strategies skill
- already held workplace sanitation knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held secondary school procedures optional
- optional, not held facilitate motor skill activities optional
- optional, not held work with virtual learning environments optional
20 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held teach braille optional
- optional, not held provide learning support optional
- optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held advise on lesson plans optional
- optional, not held behavioural disorders optional
- optional, not held communication disorders optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
- optional, not held development delays optional
- optional, not held facilitate motor skill activities optional
- optional, not held hearing disability optional
- optional, not held liaise with educational staff optional
- optional, not held mobility disability optional
- optional, not held primary school procedures optional
- optional, not held secondary school procedures 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 visual disability optional
- optional, not held work with virtual learning environments optional
5 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 first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role language teaching methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role provide after school care skill
- not needed by the target role teamwork principles knowledge
13 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 disability care required
- required, not held special needs learning equipment required
- required, not held disability types required
- required, not held learning needs analysis required
- optional, not held behavioural disorders optional
- optional, not held communication disorders optional
- optional, not held communication related to hearing impairment optional
- optional, not held development delays optional
- optional, not held hearing disability optional
- optional, not held mobility disability optional
- optional, not held primary school procedures optional
- optional, not held secondary school procedures optional
- optional, not held visual disability optional
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.