Adult Literacy / Numeracy Teacher
What the work is
Teaches literacy, numeracy and digital literacy to adults in a range of settings, including adult education facilities, workplaces, libraries, community organisations, correctional facilities and homes.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Assesses learners' needs, develops personalised learning plans and goals, and identifies barriers to learning
- Identifies core literacy, numeracy and digital skills that underpin vocational courses and workplace tasks
- Customises teaching methodologies to suit different types of learners and correspond to their learning goals
- Delivers contextualised teaching and learning programs and resources
- Conducts classes, tutorials, presentations and practical activities to teach literacy, numeracy and digital skills to individuals and small groups
- Ensures interactions with learners and the learning programs being delivered are respectful, culturally appropriate and trauma informed
- Assesses learners' progress and adapts programs and resources to improve outcomes
- Informs learners of their progress, and prepares reports for Managers and leaders of organisations, institutions and communities
- Provides advice to other parts of learners' networks such as vocational teachers, work supervisors and/or case managers as required
- Conducts audits of literacy, numeracy and digital skills within organisations, institutions and communities
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a careers office at a fictional senior secondary school. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A student who was sure they had no options leaves with three ideas they like
- A past student pops in to say the path you helped plan worked out
- A parent and teenager leave a meeting agreeing, which they did not at the start
Hard days
- A rush of subject choices that all have to be signed by the same Friday
- A student who wants a job you know is very hard to get into
- Being asked for certainty about the future when nobody has it
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 259931, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.