Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary

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Instructor, Professor, Psychology Instructor, Psychology Professor

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Clinical Psychology; USMA, Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership; USMA, Professor of Leader Development and Organizational Learning
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What they do:
Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
On the job, you would:
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as abnormal psychology, cognitive processes, and work motivation.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.

Knowledge

Math and Science

  • psychology
  • sociology and anthropology

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Health

  • therapy and counseling

Skills

Basic Skills

  • using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
  • 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
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

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

Personality

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

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Achievement/Effort
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Persistence
  • Initiative
  • Integrity

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Analytical or scientific software

  • IBM SPSS Statistics Hot Technology
  • The MathWorks MATLAB Hot Technology

Computer based training software

  • Learning management system LMS In Demand
  • Moodle

Word processing software

  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
doctoral degree or
post-doctoral training
usually needed

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