Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary

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.

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

Social

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

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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

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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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

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Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as abnormal psychology, cognitive processes, and work motivation.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Develop and use multimedia course materials and other current technology, such as online courses.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Write letters of recommendation for students.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

Supervise the clinical work of practicum students.

Provide clinical services to clients, such as assessing psychological problems and conducting psychotherapy.

Review books and journal articles for potential publication.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Participate in campus and community events.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

Carousel slide projectors

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Conference telephones

Desktop computers

Digital audio recorders

Digital calculators

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Eye tracking systems

Handheld microphones

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Laptop computers

Laser facsimile machines

Laser scanning microscopes

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners

Medical positron emission tomography PET scanners

Microphone podiums

MP3 digital voice recorders

Multi-line telephone systems

Multimedia projection equipment

Opaque projectors

Optical scanning microscopes

Overhead data projectors

Photocopying equipment

Poster printers

Projector screens

Scanning electron microscopes

Stereo fluorescence macroscopes

Student response systems

Tablet computers

Television monitors

Transmission electron microscopes TEM

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Videoconferencing equipment

Webcams

Wireless microphones

Biomedical Imaging Resource Analyze

Blackboard

Blackboard Learn

Calendar and scheduling software

Cedrus SuperLab Pro

Cengage Learning Sniffy the Virtual Rat

Collaborative editing software

Course management system software

Data entry software

Desire2Learn

DOC Cop

Email software

Empirisoft DirectRT

Empirisoft MediaLab

ePsych

FreeSurfer

Google Docs

IBM SPSS Statistics

Image scanning software

iParadigms Turnitin

Learning management system LMS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Millisecond Software Inquisit

Minitab

Moodle

Multivariate Software EQS

Psychology Software Tools E-Prime

Psychology Software Tools MRI Simulator

Psychophysics Toolbox

PsychSim

PsyScope

PsyScript

Qualtrics Research Suite

Sakai CLE

Scientific Software International HLM

Sona Systems Experiment Management System

SurveyWiz

The MathWorks MATLAB

Web browser software

Word processing software

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My day involves online and phone interactions with graduate level psychology students.  I interact with a range of faculty members about a diversity of issues.

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Mona Hanania

Faculty Onboarding and Engagement Coordinator

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Science

Teaching / Mentoring

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

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