Communications Teachers
Communications Teachers
Career outlook for
Communications Teachers
What's it like?
Teach courses in communications, such as organizational communications, public relations, radio/television broadcasting, and journalism. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Working conditions
Tasks
- Grade students’ class work, assignments, and papers.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Prepare course materials, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public speaking, media criticism, and oral traditions.
- Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
- Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
- Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.
- Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
- Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
- Keep abreast of developments and technological advances in the communication field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
- Participate in campus and community events.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
- Act as advisers to student organizations.
- Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
- Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
- Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
Top Skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Instructing
- Writing
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Persuasion
- Learning Strategies
- Monitoring
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Time Management
- Coordination
- System Analysis
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Coordination
- System Evaluation
- Negotiation
Programs
Journalism, Press and Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Publishing.
Average Salary
9760/ Month