Assistant Teacher Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Education

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Assistant Teacher Skills List in Education

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Assistant Teacher role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Assistant Teacher job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 41% of Assistant Teacher job descriptions contained teaching assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

teaching assistant
41%
learning support assistant
38%
sen
38%
lsa
22%
teaching
22%
early years
19%
ks1
19%
ks2
19%
school
19%
support staff
19%
classroom assistant
19%
qts
19%
aspiring teacher
19%
teacher
19%
primary
19%
nursery
19%
pe teacher
16%
key stage 4
16%
key stage 3
16%
instructor
16%
secondary teaching
16%
coach
16%
special needs
16%
semh
13%
asd
13%
sen ta
13%
primary teaching assistant
13%
mental health
10%
leadership
10%
slt
10%
autism
10%
send
10%
secondary school
7%
pmld
7%
learning mentor
7%
admin
7%
ta
7%
administration
7%
excel
7%
personal assistant
7%
word
7%
assistant head
7%
assistant headteacher
7%
lead practitioner
7%
education
7%
senior leadership team
7%
graduate teaching assistant
7%
assistant head teacher
7%
special education
4%
children
4%
autism spectrum disorders
4%
fitness instructor
4%
hlta
4%
personal trainer
4%
t.a
4%
pru
4%
graduate
4%
student support tutor
4%
head teacher
4%
schools
4%
send learning support assistant
4%
sen lsa
4%
sen learning support assistant
4%
high level teaching assistant
4%
graduate ta
4%
grad
4%
teacher training
4%
send ta
4%
training
4%
trainee
4%
sendco
4%
adhd
4%
mld
4%
physical disabilities
4%
sld
4%
1:1 support
4%
behaviour mentor
4%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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