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Art, Drama, & Music Teachers, PostsecondaryAlso called: Art Professor, Music Professor, Professor, Theatre Professor
What they do:
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
On the job, you would:
Arts and Humanities
Basic Skills
Verbal
People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
You might use software like this on the job:
Graphics or photo imaging software
master's degree or
doctoral degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$64,300
per year, on average
What they do:
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
On the job, you would:
- Explain and demonstrate artistic techniques.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, performances, projects, assignments, and papers.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
Arts and Humanities
- music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
- English language
- teaching and course design
- multimedia
- computers and electronics
Basic Skills
- talking to others
- figuring out how to use new ideas or things
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- teaching people how to do something
- understanding people's reactions
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Independence
- Cooperation
- Initiative
- Leadership
- Achievement/Effort
You might use software like this on the job:
Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Faux Labs Splashup
- Adobe Systems Adobe Audition
- Apple Logic Pro
- Blackboard Learn
- Desire2Learn
master's degree or
doctoral degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$64,300
per year, on average
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