Elementary School Teachers: where your skills can take you
Teach academic and social skills to students at the elementary school level.
Usual study level (from US data): Bachelor degree (uni — or check Cert/Diploma + experience pathways first) · State teacher registration — mandatory, with a Working With Children Check (in Vic and Qld, registration covers it)
Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.
Three moves that use what a elementary school teacher already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Special Education Teachers, Middle School
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses teaching other people, reading people, working in step with other people and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. The most common level in Australia is a bachelor degree (50%).
🪪 State teacher registration — mandatory, with a Working With Children Check (in Vic and Qld, registration covers it)
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Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses teaching other people, reading people, working in step with other people and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. The most common level in Australia is a bachelor degree (50%).
🪪 State teacher registration — mandatory, with a Working With Children Check (in Vic and Qld, registration covers it)
🔎 Find degrees on Course Seeker ↗ (type the job's name there)
Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.
Instructional Coordinators
🧰 Your current job already uses teaching other people, reading people, working in step with other people and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. The most common level in Australia is a postgraduate qualification (48%).
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Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.
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