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, 44% of Assistant Teacher job descriptions contained teaching assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

teaching assistant
44%
learning support assistant
40%
sen
37%
lsa
24%
teaching
24%
aspiring teacher
20%
early years
20%
ks1
20%
ks2
20%
school
20%
support staff
20%
classroom assistant
20%
teacher
20%
primary
20%
nursery
20%
key stage 3
17%
pe teacher
17%
secondary teaching
17%
qts
17%
key stage 4
17%
instructor
17%
coach
17%
semh
14%
asd
14%
special needs
14%
sen ta
14%
primary teaching assistant
14%
send
10%
mental health
10%
autism
10%
ta
7%
pmld
7%
learning mentor
7%
assistant head teacher
7%
education
7%
graduate teaching assistant
7%
administration
4%
1:1 support
4%
sld
4%
behaviour mentor
4%
send ta
4%
admin
4%
schools
4%
excel
4%
personal assistant
4%
secondary school
4%
word
4%
assistant head
4%
assistant headteacher
4%
lead practitioner
4%
leadership
4%
senior leadership team
4%
slt
4%
grad
4%
pastoral teacher assistant
4%
children
4%
fitness instructor
4%
hlta
4%
personal trainer
4%
pru
4%
sendco
4%
trainee
4%
training
4%
graduate
4%
teacher training
4%
physical disabilities
4%
graduate ta
4%
high level teaching assistant
4%
sen learning support assistant
4%
sen lsa
4%
send learning support assistant
4%
t.a
4%
student support tutor
4%
head teacher
4%
higher level teaching assistant
4%
adhd
4%
mld
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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