Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Instructor, Chemistry Professor, Professor
Knowledge:
- chemistry
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- teaching and course design
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
Skills:
- reading work related information
- talking to others
- 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
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- 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
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Independence
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- OriginLab Origin
- PerkinElmer ChemOffice ChemDraw
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
