Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School

Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the secondary school level.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

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Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.

Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.

Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.

Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.

Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.

Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage.

Prepare materials and classroom for class activities.

Assign and grade class work and homework.

Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.

Instruct students in the knowledge and skills required in a specific occupation or occupational field, using a systematic plan of lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, and laboratory, shop, and field studies.

Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.

Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.

Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.

Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.

Plan and supervise work-experience programs in businesses, industrial shops, and school laboratories.

Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.

Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.

Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.

Place students in jobs or make referrals to job placement services.

Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.

Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.

Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.

Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.

Select, order, store, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

Keep informed about trends in education and subject matter specialties.

Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.

Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.

Perform administrative duties, such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.

Adjustable widemouth pliers

Adjustable wrench sets

Analog tachometers

Anvils

Band saws

Belt sanders

Binocular microscopes

Block planes

Blowdryers

Built-in ovens

Caliper sets

Carousel slide projectors

Chef's knives

Circular saws

Claw hammers

Clothes irons

Cold chisels

Commercial dishwashers

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Compost grinders

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Computer repair tool kits

Conference telephones

Cordless drills

Cutting shears

Desktop computers

Digital calculators

Digital micrometers

Digital multimeters

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Dissection trays

Domestic washers

Drafting boards

Drill presses

Electric drills

Electric ranges

Electric spot welders

Electronic levels

Face shields

Fire suppression blankets

Food graters

Food measuring scales

Grow lights

Hacksaws

Hairbrushes

Hand awls

Hand mixers

Handheld microphones

Heat gun blowers

Hydraulic jacks

Injection mold equipment

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Kitchen bakeware

Kitchen blenders

Kitchen crock pots

Kitchen food processors

Kitchen strainers

Laptop computers

Laser facsimile machines

Laser levels

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Magnetic torch guides

Measuring cup sets

Metal inert gas MIG welders

Metal lathes

Microphone podiums

Microwave ovens

Milling machines

Mitre boxes

MP3 digital voice recorders

Multi-line telephone systems

Multimedia projection equipment

Offset presses

Offset socket wrenches

Opaque projectors

Overhead data projectors

pH indicators

Photocopying equipment

Plotting printers

Pneumatic nailers

Portable air compressors

Poster printers

Poultry brooders

Power hair clippers

Power planes

Projector screens

Propane torches

Protective ear plugs

Protective safety glasses

Radial arm saws

Sabre saws

Scroll saws

Sewing machines

Sewing shears

- Students actively participating in the lesson by asking questions, assisting/tutoring peers and completing assignments.
 - Positive interaction between peers and between teacher and students.

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Jeanne Brown

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Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Philosophy & Religion

Upholding a Cause and Belief

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

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