Career roadmap
How to become a Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
What you would actually do
The tasks Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondarys spend real time on, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Supervise laboratory work.
- Evaluate student work.
- Guide class discussions.
- Assess educational needs of students.
- Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
- Prepare tests.
- Teach physical science or mathematics courses at the college level.
- Develop instructional materials.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Instructing4.3/5
- Speaking4.1/5
- Learning Strategies4.1/5
- Reading Comprehension4.0/5
- Active Listening4.0/5
- Writing4.0/5
- Critical Thinking3.9/5
- Active Learning3.9/5
- Monitoring3.9/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.9/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondarys are measured on — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Social7.0/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
- Investigative4.8/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
- Conventional3.4/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Artistic3.3/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
- Realistic3.0/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
- Enterprising2.1/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
