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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research. | Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as abnormal psychology, cognitive processes, and work motivation. | |||
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Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers. | ||||
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Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. | ||||
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Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. | ||||
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Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences. | ||||
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Prepare course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. | ||||
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Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction. | ||||
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Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. | ||||
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Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work. | ||||
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Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. | ||||
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Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media. | ||||
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Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues. | ||||
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Select and obtain materials and supplies such as textbooks. | ||||
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Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues. | ||||
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Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues. | ||||
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Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. | ||||
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Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities. | ||||
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Supervise students' laboratory work. | ||||
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Perform administrative duties such as serving as department head. | ||||
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Act as advisers to student organizations. | ||||
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Write grant proposals to procure external research funding. | ||||
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Participate in campus and community events. | ||||
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Provide professional consulting services to government or industry. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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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. | |||
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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. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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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. | |||
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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. | |||
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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. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Science | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Doctoral Degree | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | None or short demonstration | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Abnormal Psychology Teacher | |||
Applied Psychology Chair | |||
Applied Psychology Professor | |||
Applied Psychology Teacher | |||
Behavioral Science Chair | |||
Child Development Professor | |||
Child Development Teacher | |||
Child Psychology Teacher | |||
Clinical Psychology Professor | |||
Clinical Psychology Teacher | |||
College Professor | |||
College or University Faculty Member | |||
Counseling Center Director | |||
Counselor | |||
Educational Psychology Professor | |||
Educational Psychology Teacher | |||
Faculty Member | |||
Human Relations Professor | |||
Human Relations Teacher | |||
Human Services Instructor | |||
Industrial Psychology Professor | |||
Industrial Psychology Teacher | |||
Industrial/Organizational Psychology Professor (I/O Psychology Professor) | |||
Instructor | |||
Lecturer | |||
Mental Measurements Teacher | |||
Philosophy Professor | |||
Professor | |||
Psychological Science Professor | |||
Psychology Department Chair | |||
Psychology Instructor | |||
Psychology Professor | |||
School Psychology Professor | |||
Social Science Instructor | |||
Social Sciences Department Chair | |||
Social Sciences Professor | |||
Social Studies Department Chair | |||
Teacher | |||
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