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Primary Education Teaching Professionals

Primary (and middle school deemed primary) and education teaching professionals plan, organise and provide instruction to children at all levels up to the age of entry into secondary education.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£17,436
£36,826
£50,480

New workers start around £17,436. Normal pay is £36,826 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £50,480.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 394,346 vacancies for this type of job

1.73%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.

  • Discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals.

  • Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.

  • Undertakes pastoral duties.

  • Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development.

  • Maintains records of students’ progress and development.

  • Prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations.

  • Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress.

  • Prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches a range of subjects.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Classroom Management

  • National Curriculum

  • Lesson Planning

  • Due Diligence

  • Working With Children

  • Curriculum Development

  • Child Protection

  • External Auditing

  • Learning Styles

  • Student Engagement

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Teaching

  • Communication

  • Planning

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Management

  • Enthusiasm

  • Leadership

  • Constructive Feedback

  • Adaptability

  • Innovation

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Applied Education Studies

Nottingham College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 48/48

Primary Education with QTS

Bishop Grosseteste University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Lincoln · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Primary Teaching (QTS)

University of Chichester

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bognor Regis · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

Physical Education

Solent University (Southampton)

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

Primary Education with QTS

University of Winchester

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Winchester · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/120

Primary Education

University of Aberdeen

MA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Aberdeen · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Primary Education with SEND

University of Sunderland

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Sunderland · 09/09/2024

Tariff points: 120/120

Education Studies

Bradford College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bradford · 09/2024

Tariff points: 80/80

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