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Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Knowledge

Abilities

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

A four-year bachelor's degree is the usual entry ticket.

Experience

Two to four years of related work, internships or research on top of the degree.

Training

Most of the learning happens before you are hired, not after.

What it pays

These are typical education compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.

Top University Admin

$90k – $180k

Public School Districts

$55k – $85k

Charter & Private Schools

$45k – $75k

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz
Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles
Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only
"Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible
You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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