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Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Also called: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Instructor, Professor

What they do:

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.

On the job, you would:
  • 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.
On the job, you'll need:

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Math and Science

  • psychology

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

People and Technology Systems

  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Social

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Concern for Others
  • Self Control

Word processing software

  • Google Docs
  • Microsoft Word

Computer based training software

  • Learning management system LMS
  • Sakai CLE

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Average.

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Median Annual Salary: $76,440

Education

Doctoral degree or master's degree is usually needed.