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Primary and Nursery Education Teaching Professionals

Primary (and middle school deemed primary) and nursery 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
£ 16,291
£ 34,495
£ 46,970

New workers start around £16,291. Normal pay is £34,495 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £46,970.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 431,270 vacancies for this type of job

1.21%

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.

  • Supervises students and maintains classroom discipline.

  • Maintains records of students.

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

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

  • 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.

  • National Curriculum

  • Working With Children

  • Classroom Management

  • Due Diligence

  • Lesson Planning

  • Child Protection

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Mental Health

  • Special Education

  • Drag And Drop

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

  • Communications

  • Planning

  • Management

  • Enthusiasm

  • Leadership

  • Mathematics

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Organizational Skills

  • 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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Primary and Early Years Education with Qualified Teacher Status (School Based) Haybridge Alliance School Centred Initial Teacher Training

Primary and Early Years Education with Qualified Teacher Status (School Based)

Haybridge Alliance School Centred Initial Teacher Training HAGLEY
Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, Worcestershire
Qualification
BA (Hons)
Duration
3 Years
Study mode
Full-time
Start date
2023-2024
Average grad salary
N/A
UCAS Tariff
112/112
Student satisfaction
N/A
Course study options
2 course options available

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