Education Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Education

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Education Skills List in Education

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Education role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Education job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 24% of Education job descriptions contained teaching assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

teaching assistant
24%
higher education
20%
prison
20%
ta
20%
classroom assistant
20%
teaching support
16%
nursery practitioner
16%
learning support
16%
assistant teacher
16%
prison education
16%
teacher
16%
graduate
16%
adult education
12%
alternative provision
12%
education
12%
early years foundation stage
8%
organisational skills
8%
assistant head teacher
8%
alternative education
8%
offender learning
8%
further education
8%
early years
8%
head of education
8%
key stage 1
8%
key stage 2
8%
nursery
8%
primary school
8%
primary school teacher
8%
primary school teaching
8%
primary teaching
8%
reception
8%
safeguarding
8%
line management
8%
adaptability
4%
driver
4%
autism
4%
virtual learning
4%
general administration
4%
communication skills
4%
support staff
4%
special needs teaching assistant
4%
sen teaching assistant
4%
sen ta
4%
supply teaching
4%
secondary teaching
4%
secondary school
4%
get into teaching
4%
cover supervisor
4%
deputy head teacher
4%
prison tutor
4%
semh
4%
ks4
4%
ks3
4%
ks2
4%
ks1
4%
time management
4%
customer service
4%
tutor
4%
assistant teaching
4%
pastoral
4%
education staff
4%
special needs
4%
sen
4%
secondary education
4%
flexible approach
4%
offenders
4%
training and development officer
4%
timetabling
4%
allocation
4%
appeals
4%
applications
4%
complaints
4%
employability
4%
ftc
4%
management
4%
prison leavers
4%
probation
4%
programme delivery
4%
quality assurance
4%
resource allocation
4%
education psychologist
4%
trainer
4%
head teacher
4%
assessment
4%
headteacher
4%
tutoring
4%
deputy headteacher
4%
lecturing
4%
young people
4%
schools
4%
local authorities
4%
project manager
4%
project management
4%
programme manager
4%
programme management
4%
educational services
4%
children and young people
4%
slt
4%
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