Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. 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

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

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

First Interest High-Point

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

Second Interest High-Point

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

Third Interest High-Point

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

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.

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

Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.

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

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

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

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

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

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

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

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Serve as a liaison between the university and other governmental and educational agencies.

Advise and instruct teachers employed in school systems by providing activities, such as in-service seminars.

Participate in campus and community events.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

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

Multimedia projection equipment

Opaque projectors

Overhead data projectors

Photocopying equipment

Poster printers

Projector screens

Student response systems

Tablet computers

Television monitors

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Video converters

Videoconferencing equipment

Webcams

Wireless microphones

Wireless slates

Blackboard

Blackboard Learn

Calendar and scheduling software

Collaborative editing software

Course management system software

Data entry software

Desire2Learn

DOC Cop

Editing software

Email software

Google Docs

Image scanning software

iParadigms Turnitin

Learning management system LMS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Padlet

Sakai CLE

VoiceThread

Web browser software

Lead Faculty

I started college when I was almost 30, and had three children at the time. One of my brothers told me it was a waste of time and I would never finish it.

Susan Webber

Lead Faculty

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Writing

Technology

Working Independently

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Family:

Susan Webber

Lead Faculty

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Writing

Technology

Working Independently

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Family:

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