Youth workers help young people to fulfil their potential in society. They provide enjoyable, educational and challenging activities to help young people improve their confidence, develop new skills and cope with issues that affect their lives. They mainly work with people aged 13 to 19 (in some cases 11 to 25). The job of a [...]
Yoga teachers instruct people on the various positions involved in yoga, and also teach controlled breathing, meditation and visualisation. They teach yoga either: as a form of exercise, to increase physical fitness and suppleness; or as a therapy to combat or control disease and ill-health. There are many different styles of yoga. The most common taught [...]
Training officers organise training for staff within companies. This can involve delivering training personally or arranging training events through other colleagues or external providers, consultants or academic institutions and training centres. Some training officers may be responsible for a particular area such as management development or health and safety. Those with a general role have a wide range of [...]
Training managers organise and manage training programmes within an organisation. It is their job to ensure that staff gain and develop the skills they need to carry out their jobs effectively. They do this by devising and co-ordinating training which covers the organisation’s current and future needs. The work involves: working closely with other managers to identify training needs drawing up an overall training [...]
Teaching assistants help teachers with their everyday work. The role is often known by other names, including classroom assistant, non-teaching assistant or learning support assistant. Teaching assistants usually work with small groups or with individual children. Their duties vary depending on the particular job and the age of the children. In primary schools their work can include: helping to get the classroom ready for lessons listening to [...]
Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teach English to people whose first or main language is not English. Students learn English for diferrent work or leisure purposes, such as: to help with their work or business to improve their conversational English to get into college or university in an English speaking country to prepare for an [...]
Swimming coaches give instruction in swimming to people of all ages and abilities. They may work with people learning to swim as a leisure activity, or with those competing as amateurs or professionals. This can include teaching: complete beginners competent swimmers wanting to improve their style competitive swimmers involved in national and international competitions. Some [...]
Sports coaches teach sports skills and techniques to individuals and teams of all abilities, from absolute beginners to top international professionals. They help people to take part in their chosen sport safely and to their full potential. The work of a sports coach includes: planning structured training programmes running training sessions accompanying participants to competitions and [...]
Special needs teaching assistants work in schools, helping pupils with a wide range of severe learning, physical or behavioural difficulties. They may also be known as: special needs classroom assistants learning support assistants non-teaching support staff support workers special needs assistants. The work of a special needs teaching assistant depends on the on the age of the pupils and their [...]
Special educational needs teachers work with children and young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn or access education than most children of the same age. This could include teaching children with: mild to moderate learning difficulties specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia physical disabilities hearing or [...]
