Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

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Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher (FACS Teacher), Teacher, Technology Education Teacher (Tech Ed Teacher), Technology Teacher

What they do:
Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.
On the job, you would:
  • Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
  • Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
  • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Math and Science

  • psychology
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

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

Social

  • teaching people how to do something
  • understanding people's reactions

Problem Solving

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

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

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

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted
  • do two or more things at the same time

Personality

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

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Integrity
  • Concern for Others
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Cooperation
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Object or component oriented development software

  • Objective C Hot Technology
  • Scala Hot Technology

Word processing software

  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology

Development environment software

  • Apache Kafka Hot Technology
  • Go Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed

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