Home Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Instructor, Professor
Knowledge:
- teaching and course design
- customer service
- management
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- read and understand what is written
- use rules to solve problems
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Independence
- Cooperation
- Concern for Others
- Self Control
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
