Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
Teach occupational, career and technical, or vocational subjects at the secondary school level in public or private schools.
Also called: Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher (FACS Teacher), Instructor, Teacher, Technology Education Teacher
Knowledge:
- customer service
- administrative services
- teaching and course design
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- teaching people how to do something
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- group things in different ways
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
- remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Concern for Others
- Leadership
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
Education:
certificate after high school
