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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

Description
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts, including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture or design and crafts.

Experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education
A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks
  • Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
  • Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
  • Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
  • Acts as adviser to student organizations.
  • Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
  • Stimulates class discussions.
  • Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
  • Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
National Average Salary
$51,100.00/year

Important Abilities
   1. Oral Expression
   2. Written Comprehension
   3. Written Expression
   4. Oral Comprehension
   5. Speech Clarity

General Work Activities
   1. Teaching Others
   2. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
   3. Communicating With Other Workers
   4. Coaching and Developing Others
   5. Communicating With Persons Outside Organization

Important Skills
   1. Instructing
   2. Speaking
   3. Reading Comprehension
   4. Learning Strategies
   5. Writing

Frequent Work Context
   1. Job-Required Social Interaction
   2. Indoors
   3. Objective or Subjective Information
   4. Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
   5. Supervise, Coach, Train Others

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