Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management. 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

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

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

First Interest High-Point

Third 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

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

Second 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

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Home Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

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

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

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child care.

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

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

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

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

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

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

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

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

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

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

Participate in campus and community events.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

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

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

Bakeware pans

Built-in ovens

Carousel slide projectors

Chef's knives

Commercial dishwashers

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Conference telephones

Deep freezers

Desktop computers

Digital calculators

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Domestic sewing machines

Electric ranges

Handheld microphones

Human development software

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Laptop computers

Laser facsimile machines

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Microphone podiums

Microwave ovens

Money management software

MP3 digital voice recorders

Multi-line telephone systems

Multimedia projection equipment

Nutrition management software

Opaque projectors

Overhead data projectors

Photocopying equipment

Poster printers

Pressing equipment

Projector screens

Refrigerators

Stand mixers

Student response systems

Tablet computers

Television monitors

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Videoconferencing equipment

Webcams

Wireless microphones

Blackboard Learn

Calendar and scheduling software

Collaborative editing software

Course management system software

Data entry software

Desire2Learn

DOC Cop

Email software

Google Docs

Image scanning software

iParadigms Turnitin

Learning management system LMS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Sakai CLE

Social computing tools

Web browser software

Teacher Educator, Associate Professor

You are too smart to be a teacher. You should be a doctor or a lawyer. Teachers don't make any money.

Karen Alexander

Teacher Educator, Associate Professor

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Karen Alexander

Teacher Educator, Associate Professor

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Writing

Teaching / Mentoring

Recommended Education

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

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Friends:

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