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Physics Teachers, Postsecondary

Description
Teach courses pertaining to the laws of matter and energy. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education
A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks
  • Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
  • Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
  • Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
  • Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
  • Acts as adviser to student organizations.
  • Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
  • Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Stimulates class discussions.
  • Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
National Average Salary
$65,050.00/year

Average Salary in Maryland
$76,230.00/year

Important Abilities
   1. Oral Expression
   2. Written Comprehension
   3. Speech Clarity
   4. Number Facility
   5. Deductive Reasoning

General Work Activities
   1. Teaching Others
   2. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
   3. Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others
   4. Analyzing Data or Information
   5. Communicating With Persons Outside Organization

Important Skills
   1. Reading Comprehension
   2. Instructing
   3. Writing
   4. Science
   5. Speaking

Frequent Work Context
   1. Job-Required Social Interaction
   2. Provide a Service to Others
   3. Objective or Subjective Information
   4. Frustrating Circumstances
   5. Supervise, Coach, Train Others

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