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Education Teachers, Postsecondaryresume guide.

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. A strong Education Teachers, Postsecondary resume shows speaking, reading comprehension and active listening, and names the tools you have worked with, such as Microsoft Word, SAS and Microsoft Outlook.

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01Also called

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Adjunct InstructorAssistant ProfessorAssociate ProfessorEducation InstructorEducation ProfessorFaculty MemberInstructorLecturerProfessorSpecial Education Professor

02Skills employers expect

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Importance is how much the skill matters to the job; level is how much of it the job demands. Both are worth naming on the resume, in this order.

SkillImportanceLevel
SpeakingVery highAdvanced
Reading ComprehensionVery highAdvanced
Active ListeningVery highAdvanced
InstructingVery highAdvanced
Learning StrategiesVery highAdvanced
Active LearningVery highAdvanced
WritingVery highAdvanced
MonitoringHighAdvanced
Complex Problem SolvingHighAdvanced
Critical ThinkingHighAdvanced

03Knowledge areas

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  • English Language
  • Education and Training
  • Psychology
  • Sociology and Anthropology
  • Administration and Management
  • Communications and Media
  • Mathematics
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Computers and Electronics

04Common responsibilities

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Ordered by importance. Each one is a bullet waiting for a result and a number.

  1. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  2. Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  3. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  4. Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  5. Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.
  6. Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
  7. Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.
  8. Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  9. Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
  10. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

05Software and tools

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24 tools across 11 categories. The six largest categories are below; Hot marks a hot technology, In demand a tool employers ask for most often.

Computer based training software7
  • Learning management system LMSIn demand
  • Blackboard Learn
  • Desire2Learn LMS software
  • Course management system software
  • Sakai CLE
  • Padlet
  • VoiceThread
+ 2 more
Word processing software4
Analytical or scientific software3
  • SASHotIn demand
  • Desmos
  • Geogebra
Electronic mail software2
Information retrieval or search software2
  • DOC Cop
  • iParadigms Turnitin
Data base user interface and query software1
  • Blackboard software
Internet browser software1
Office suite software1
Optical character reader OCR or scanning software1
  • Image scanning software
Presentation software1
Spreadsheet software1

06Education and preparation

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Typical education
Doctoral Degree
90% of surveyed workers. Others report Master's Degree (9%) and Bachelor's Degree (1%).
Preparation level
Job Zone 5 · Extensive preparation
Usually a graduate degree and extensive related experience.

07Putting it on your resume

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BEE · How to show it

Lead with what you built. For a Job Zone 5 role, hiring managers and parsers both look for outcomes before credentials. Put two or three results at the top of each job entry, with the scale or effect stated plainly.

Name the tools exactly. This occupation is heavy on named software. A skills section that says "Microsoft Word, SAS, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office software" matches more job descriptions than a general phrase. Use the spelling employers use.

Show reading comprehension and active listening, not just speaking. Reading comprehension and active listening rank close to speaking for this occupation. One bullet per role that shows a decision, a tradeoff or a result covers them.

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