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Secondary school teaching assistant

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Assistant in secondary school teaching High school teaching assistant Secondary education teaching assistant Secondary school ta Secondary school assistant Secondary school instructional assistant Secondary school paraprofessional Secondary school teaching aide Teaching assistant in secondary schools

Secondary school teaching assistants provide various support services to secondary school teachers such as instructional and practical support. They help with the preparation of lesson materials needed in class and reinforce instructions with students in need of extra attention. They also perform basic clerical duties, monitor the students' learning progress and behaviour and supervise the students with and without the teacher present.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Demonstrating, supervising and participating in activities that enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of children in schools and pre-schools;
(b) Preparing indoor and outdoor areas for learning and recreational activities;
(c) Assisting children with intellectual, physical, behavioural and other learning difficulties with their studies;
(d) Assisting children individually to learn social skills;
(e) Assisting with preparing teaching materials, and copying and collating written and printed material;
(f) Operating audio-visual equipment, computers and other teaching aides;
(g) Distributing and collecting lesson material.

Knowledge

  • Education science
  • Teacher training without subject specialisation
  • Sociology and cultural studies
  • Business and administration not elsewhere classified
  • Nursing and midwifery

Digital competencies

  • Teaching and training
  • Monitoring and evaluating the performance of individuals
  • Teaching academic or vocational subjects
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Coaching and mentoring

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools for collaboration and productivity

Personal competencies

  • Supporting others
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn
  • Leading others
  • Dealing with problems

Professional groups of the occupation

Service and sales workers

Personal care workers

Child care workers and teachers' aides

Teachers' aides

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Teachers' aides

6.243

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

25,64%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

18,76% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

26,59%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

72,03%

Part-time contracts

1,75% Turnover index

1.089

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-4%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Personal care workers

24%

76%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Personal care workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Child care workers and teachers' aides

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Teachers' aides

No experience
16%
Less than 1 year
22%
Between 1 and 2 years
38%
Between 2 and 4 years
12%
Between 4 and 8 years
3%
More than 8 years
9%
Education
43%
Information and communication
13%
Human health and social work activities
13%
Administrative and support service activities
9%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
7%
Others
15%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.