Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Also called: Instructor, Professor, Psychology Instructor, Psychology Professor
Knowledge:
- psychology
- sociology and anthropology
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
- reading work related information
- 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
- 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
- Achievement/Effort
- Dependability
- Independence
- Persistence
- Initiative
- Integrity
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
Computer based training software
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
