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Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in economics. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

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  • Skills
  • WorkKeys®
  • Abilities
  • Knowledge
  • Career Video
  • Pay
  • Ohio Employment Trends
  • Typical Education
  • Personality
  • Tools
  • Technology
  • Act as advisers to student organizations.
  • Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as econometrics, price theory, and macroeconomics.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
  • Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
  • Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Participate in campus and community events.
  • Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Act as advisers to student organizations.
  • Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as econometrics, price theory, and macroeconomics.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
  • Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
  • Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Participate in campus and community events.
  • Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Skills

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
6
Graphic Literacy
4

Abilities

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

Knowledge

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $171,040
    $96,840
    $39,470
    Ohio
    US
    $217,160
    $119,980
    $57,550

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 230
  • Yearly Projected Openings 20

Typical Education

Personality

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Attention to Detail

Tools

  • Compact disk players or recorders
  • Desktop computers
  • Digital camcorders or video cameras
  • Digital cameras
  • Digital video disk players or recorders
  • Epidiascopes
  • High capacity removable media drives
  • Inkjet printers
  • Laser fax machine
  • Laser printers
  • Liquid crystal display projector
  • MP3 players or recorders
  • Microphone stand
  • Microphones
  • Multimedia projectors
  • Notebook computers
  • Overhead projectors
  • Photocopiers
  • Portable data input terminals
  • Projection screens or displays
  • Scanners
  • Scientific calculator
  • Slide projectors
  • Special purpose telephones
  • Tablet computers
  • Teleconference equipment
  • Televisions
  • Touch screen monitors
  • Videoconferencing systems
  • Web cameras

Technology

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Calendar and scheduling software
  • Computer based training software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Financial analysis software
  • Information retrieval or search software
  • Internet browser software
  • Object or component oriented development software
  • Office suite software
  • Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
  • Presentation software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Web page creation and editing software
  • Word processing software
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