Occupation Atlasearly years teaching assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4d27152a-a8ee-4f5a-9f93-a2fb4fb2b2e3
early years teaching assistant
Early years teaching assistants support the early years teacher in an early years or nursery school. They assist in class instruction, in classroom supervision in absence of the head teacher, and in organising, developing and putting into practice of the daily schedule. Early years teaching assistants monitor and help students in group as well as individually, and tend to focus on the students in need of extra care and attention the early years teacher cannot provide.
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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.
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 Artistic3.98
- C Conventional3.61
- R Realistic2.94
- I Investigative2.76
- E Enterprising2.49
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 Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education (25-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (19)
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
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- guarantee students' safety
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- kindergarten school procedures
- maintain students' discipline
- monitor children's physical development
- perform playground surveillance
- provide lesson materials
- provide teacher support
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
- workplace sanitation
Optional (16)
- assess students
- common children's diseases
- curriculum objectives
- escort students on a field trip
- facilitate teamwork between students
- first aid
- 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
- teach kindergarten class content
- teamwork principles
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 19 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
special educational needs assistant
16 shared · 7 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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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 special educational needs teacher
15 shared · 19 more of its ownkindergarten school procedures, 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
14 shared · 15 more of its ownkindergarten school procedures, assist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems
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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, monitor children's physical development
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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, monitor children's physical development
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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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special educational needs teacher
12 shared · 20 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, implement care programmes for children, handle children's problems, monitor children's physical development
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