Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language.
Salary distribution (US)
Real salary data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The p10–p90 spread tells you more than the median alone.
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Education and Training
- English Language
- Psychology
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Administration and Management
- Communications and Media
- Customer and Personal Service
- Philosophy and Theology
A day in the life
You begin your morning preparing lesson plans for graduate students studying curriculum design or teaching methodology, weaving in the latest peer-reviewed research and field observations from partner schools. Your teaching blocks are interactive seminars where future educators practice lesson delivery, analyze case studies of classroom management, and reflect on their student-teaching experiences while you provide real-time coaching. Between classes, you supervise student teachers at local schools, review dissertations, attend faculty governance meetings, and carve out time for your own research on instructional equity or literacy development. The deep reward is watching your students become confident, effective teachers, but balancing the demands of mentoring, scholarship, and university service leaves little margin in your schedule.
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