Business Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations and conferences.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and career issues.

Collaborate with members of the business community to improve programs, to develop new programs, and to provide student access to learning opportunities, such as internships.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Participate in campus and community events.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Carousel slide projectors

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Conference telephones

Desktop computers

Digital calculators

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Handheld microphones

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Laptop computers

Laser facsimile machines

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Microphone podiums

MP3 digital voice recorders

Multi-line telephone systems

Opaque projectors

Overhead data projectors

Personal computers

Photocopying equipment

Poster printers

Student response systems

Tablet computers

Television monitors

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Videoconferencing equipment

Webcams

Wireless microphones

Almaris E-Learning Systems Financial Accounting Tutor

Blackboard

Blackboard Learn

Calendar and scheduling software

Collaborative editing software

Course management system software

Data entry software

Desire2Learn

DOC Cop

Email software

Google Docs

Google Gmail

Google Scholar

Hypertext markup language HTML

Image scanning software

Instructure Canvas

iParadigms Turnitin

Learning management system LMS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Sage 50 Accounting

Sakai CLE

Spreadsheet software

SPSS

StataCorp Stata

Web browser software

Word processing software

Begin teaching as soon as possible to gain experience.

Others around me were not going to college but just working odd jobs. I worked and went to school until I felt like I was where I wanted to be.

Grade student work, read doctoral level papers and provide feedback. Develop relationships with faculty, staff, and students.

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Why do you want to earn a Ph.D.? Why don't you become an elementary teacher?

Irene Williams

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First-Generation College Student

Irene Williams

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My work combines:

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Education

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