Foreign Language & Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach languages and literature courses in languages other than English. Includes teachers of American Sign Language (ASL). Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: French Professor, Professor, Spanish Instructor, Spanish Professor
Knowledge:
- foreign language
- English language
- teaching and course design
- sociology and anthropology
- geography
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- teaching people how to do something
- understanding people's reactions
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Self Control
- Persistence
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Achievement/Effort
- Concern for Others
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
