Occupation Atlassecondary school teacher
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secondary school teacher
Secondary school teachers provide education to students, commonly children and young adults, in a secondary school setting. They are usually specialist subject teachers, who instruct in their own field of study. They prepare lesson plans and materials, monitor the students' progress, assist individually when necessary and evaluate their knowledge and performance through assignments, tests and examinations.
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Job Zone
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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
SACSocial · Artistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social7.00
- A Artistic3.77
- C Conventional3.61
- I Investigative3.19
- E Enterprising2.90
- R Realistic2.73
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 Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education (25-2031.00): 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 (30)
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.
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply teaching strategies
- assess students
- assign homework
- assist students in their learning
- compile course material
- cooperate with education professionals
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- develop course outline
- facilitate teamwork between students
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- instructional strategies
- learning difficulties
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain students' discipline
- manage student relationships
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- monitor educational developments
- monitor student's behaviour
- pedagogy
- perform classroom management
- post-secondary school procedures
- prepare lesson content
- provide learning support
- provide lesson materials
- secondary school procedures
Optional (66)
- adolescent socialisation behaviour
- arrange parent teacher meeting
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- assist students with equipment
- biological chemistry
- biology
- chemistry
- classical languages
- computer science
- consult student's support system
- develop digital educational materials
- e-learning
- ecology
- economics
- escort students on a field trip
- ethics
- geography
- history
- identify cross-curricular links with other subject areas
- identify learning disorders
- identify talent
- instruct in sport
- keep records of attendance
- language teaching methods
- linguistics
- literary theory
- literature
- manage resources for educational purposes
- mathematics
- modern languages
- monitor children's physical development
- music literature
- musical instruments
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- perform playground surveillance
- philosophy
- prepare youths for adulthood
- pronunciation techniques
- provide health education
- recognise indicators of gifted student
- rhetoric
- sociology
- sport games rules
- statistics
- supervise spoken language learning
- teach arts principles
- teach astronomy
- teach biology
- teach business principles
- teach chemistry
- teach computer science
- teach digital literacy
- teach economic principles
- teach geography
- teach history
- teach languages
- teach mathematics
- teach music principles
- teach philosophy
- teach physics
- teach principles of literature
- teach religious studies class
- use IT tools
- use pedagogic strategies for creativity
- work with virtual learning environments
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 30 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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chemistry teacher secondary school
24 shared · 4 more of its ownpost-secondary school procedures, monitor student's behaviour, secondary school procedures, assign homework
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