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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.

Average Salary

£33,087

New workers start around £14,602. Normal pay is £33,087 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £47,129.

Jobs

424,204

The number of jobs in the career for the current year.

Daily Tasks

  • 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.

  • Child Protection

  • Classroom Management

  • National Curriculum

  • Mathematics Education

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

Soft skills

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

  • Teaching

  • Enthusiasm

  • Communications

  • Innovation

  • Management

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.