Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

educational psychologisttospecial educational needs itinerant teacher

A educational psychologist already meets 38% of what the special educational needs itinerant teacher role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

From educational psychologist
38%
Overlap1
To special educational needs itinerant teacher
14 Skills carried over
12 Required, not held
63.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

38%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

63.5/ 100

1 Share of the special educational needs itinerant teacher role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the educational psychologist 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

Why this move works

A special educational needs itinerant teacher role treats 8 of its required skills as things a educational psychologist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • assessment processes
  • behavioural disorders
  • communicate with youth
  • guarantee students' safety
  • liaise with educational staff
  • liaise with educational support staff

What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A special educational needs itinerant teacher role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a educational psychologist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held behavioural disorders social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held education law business, administration and law
  • already held monitor student's behaviour management skills
  • already held consult student's support system communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity

All 14 carried skills, including the 8 the special educational needs itinerant teacher role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 25 missing skills fall into 5 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 9 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held advise on strategies for special needs students required
  • 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 assist students in their learning required
  • required, not held demonstrate when teaching required
  • required, not held give constructive feedback required
  • required, not held prepare lesson content required
  • required, not held provide lesson materials required
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
  • optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
  • optional, not held cooperate with education professionals optional
  • optional, not held counsel clients optional
  • optional, not held provide teacher support optional
02 assisting and caring 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held assist students with equipment required
  • optional, not held assist children with special needs in education settings optional
  • optional, not held provide specialised instruction for special needs students optional
  • optional, not held provide social counselling optional
03 education 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held curriculum objectives required
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
04 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held assess students required
  • optional, not held assist students with their enrolment optional
05 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held keep records of attendance optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a special educational needs itinerant teacher role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 14 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assessment processes knowledge
  • already held behavioural disorders knowledge
  • already held communicate with youth skill
  • already held guarantee students' safety skill
  • already held liaise with educational staff skill
  • already held liaise with educational support staff skill
  • already held monitor student's behaviour skill
  • already held show consideration for student's situation skill
  • already held assist in the organisation of school events skill
  • already held consult student's support system skill
  • already held education law knowledge
  • already held learning difficulties knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held secondary school procedures knowledge
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist children with special needs in education settings optional
  • optional, not held assist students with their enrolment optional
  • optional, not held provide specialised instruction for special needs students optional
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
  • optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
  • optional, not held cooperate with education professionals optional
  • optional, not held counsel clients optional
  • optional, not held keep records of attendance optional
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held provide social counselling optional
  • optional, not held provide teacher support optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
31 held skills the special educational needs itinerant teacher role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role action research knowledge
  • not needed by the target role adolescent psychological development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply crisis intervention skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out psychiatric assessment of child skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate about youth's well-being skill
  • not needed by the target role communication disorders knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct psychological research skill
  • not needed by the target role consultation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role counsel students skill
  • not needed by the target role crisis intervention knowledge
  • not needed by the target role developmental psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role diagnose education problems skill
  • not needed by the target role diagnose psychiatric symptoms skill
  • not needed by the target role interpret psychological tests skill
  • not needed by the target role keep up-to-date with training subjects skill
  • not needed by the target role learning needs analysis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor therapeutic progress skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee extra-curricular activities skill
  • not needed by the target role perform educational testing skill
  • not needed by the target role psychiatric disorders knowledge
  • not needed by the target role psychological counselling methods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role publish academic research skill
  • not needed by the target role school psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role social development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role support children's wellbeing skill
  • not needed by the target role test for behavioural patterns skill
  • not needed by the target role test for emotional patterns skill
  • not needed by the target role use psychoeducation skill
  • not needed by the target role write research proposals skill
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held curriculum objectives required
  • optional, not held primary school procedures optional
  • optional, not held special needs education optional
Index

Other moves recorded from educational psychologist

Full index of moves from educational psychologist

Note

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.