Education Administrators, Elementary & Secondary School
Also called:
Principal, Assistant Principal, Superintendent, Middle School Principal
What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of public or private elementary or secondary level schools.
On the job, you would:
- Enforce discipline and attendance rules.
- Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavioral or learning problems.
- Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques, and to determine areas where improvement is needed.
Arts and Humanities
Education and Training
- teaching and course design
Business
- management
- customer service
Safety and Government
- public safety and security
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Attention
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
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People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Leadership
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
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You might use software like this on the job:
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- ACS Technologies HeadMaster
- Blackbaud The Education Edge
Data base user interface and query software
- L-Systems X-ONE
- LogicalBit Eimas
Spreadsheet software
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master's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$87,760
per year, on average
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