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Art, Drama, & Music Teachers, Postsecondary

Also called: Professor, Music Professor, Art Professor, Theatre Professor

What they do:
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
On the job, you would:
  • Explain and demonstrate artistic techniques.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, performances, projects, assignments, and papers.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
  • English language
Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Communications
  • multimedia
Engineering and Technology
  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills
  • talking to others
  • figuring out how to use new ideas or things
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
  • teaching people how to do something
  • understanding people's reactions

Abilities

Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Initiative
  • Leadership
  • Achievement/Effort

Technology

Examples of the technology used in this career will be available soon.

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
master's degree or
doctoral/professional degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Average Outlook
New job opportunities are likely in the future.
Salary
$62,330
per year, on average
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