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Career Details :: Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.

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Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Speech Clarity
• Written Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others
• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
• Analyzing Data or Information

Important Skills

• Reading Comprehension
  
• Writing
  
• Instructing
  
• Speaking
  
• Learning Strategies
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Provide a Service to Others
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Frustrating Circumstances
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others

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