Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

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Business Education Teacher, Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher (FACS Teacher), Industrial Technology Teacher, Technology Education Teacher (Tech Ed 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.
  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.

Knowledge

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Business

  • administrative services

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things

Social

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

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

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

Attention

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

Personality

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

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Optimism
  • Empathy
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Self-Control
  • Social Orientation
  • Cooperation

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Object or component oriented development software

  • jQuery 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 3 of 4)
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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