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Career Details :: Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling.

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

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• Instructional Coordinators
  
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Sociologists
  

Important Abilities

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

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships

Important Skills

• Instructing
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Speaking
  
• Active Learning
  
• Critical Thinking
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Indoors
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Consequence of Error

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