Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary

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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences Professor, Professor

What they do:
Teach courses in environmental science. 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, assignments, and papers.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and field work.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Math and Science

  • biology
  • chemistry

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • reading work related information
  • talking to others

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
  • read and understand what is written

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:

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Initiative
  • Integrity
  • Persistence
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Independence

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Word processing software

  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology

Computer based training software

  • Learning management system LMS
  • Sakai CLE

Geographic information system

  • ESRI ArcGIS software Hot Technology
  • Geographic information system GIS systems

Education

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

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