Planning, managing and providing education and training services, and related learning support services.

Coordinate day-to-day operations of distance learning programs and schedule courses.

Education Administrators, All Other

Distance Learning Coordinators

Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.

Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School

Plan, direct, or coordinate student instruction, administration, and services, as well as other research and educational activities, at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges.

Education Administrators, Postsecondary

Plan, direct, or coordinate academic or nonacademic activities of preschools or childcare centers and programs, including before- and after-school care.

Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare

Education Administrators, Preschool and Childcare Center/Program

Manage or coordinate fitness and wellness programs and services. Manage and train staff of wellness specialists, health educators, or fitness instructors.

Fitness and Wellness Coordinators

Coordinate sports and recreation activities and policy implementation. Develop, promote, and implement new programs. Ensure the maintenance of sports and recreation facilities.

Sports Programme Coordinators

Administration and Administrative Support

Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of permanent records and historically valuable documents. Participate in research activities based on archival materials.

Archivists

Prepare, plan, and operate multimedia teaching aids for use in education. May record, catalogue, and file materials.

Librarians and Media Collections Specialists

Audio-Visual and Multimedia Collections Specialists

Administer collections, such as artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific specimens of museums or other institutions. May conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of institution.

Curators

Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors

Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors

Support senior staff with initiatives centered around leadership and manager development, talent management, organizational design, onboarding, inclusion and diversity, and employee engagement. May include managing corporate induction, training administration, arranging performance development schemes, supporting the provision of management information, and budget tracking.

Instructional Coordinators

Enterprise Learning Coordinators

Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology in specialized fields that provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.

Develop instructional materials and products and assist in the technology-based redesign of courses. Assist faculty in learning about, becoming proficient in, and applying instructional technology.

Instructional Designers and Technologists

Interpret oral or sign language, or translate written text from one language into another.

Interpreters and Translators

Administer libraries and perform related library services. Work in a variety of settings, including public libraries, educational institutions, museums, corporations, government agencies, law firms, non-profit organizations, and healthcare providers. Tasks may include selecting, acquiring, cataloguing, classifying, circulating, and maintaining library materials; and furnishing reference, bibliographical, and readers' advisory services. May perform in-depth, strategic research, and synthesize, analyze, edit, and filter information. May set up or work with databases and information systems to catalogue and access information.

Librarians

Assist librarians by helping readers in the use of library catalogs, databases, and indexes to locate books and other materials; and by answering questions that require only brief consultation of standard reference. Compile records; sort and shelve books or other media; remove or repair damaged books or other media; register patrons; and check materials in and out of the circulation process. Replace materials in shelving area (stacks) or files. Includes bookmobile drivers who assist with providing services in mobile libraries.

Library Technicians

Restore, maintain, or prepare objects in museum collections for storage, research, or exhibit. May work with specimens such as fossils, skeletal parts, or botanicals; or artifacts, textiles, or art. May identify and record objects or install and arrange them in exhibits. Includes book or document conservators.

Museum Technicians and Conservators

Coordinate programs and activities that provide educational support to children with special educational and learning needs. Advise the special education principal of developments in the special needs research field and new program proposals.

Special Educational Needs Coordinators

Create subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers or for movies or television programs in a different language to the one heard in the audiovisual production. Ensure that the captions and subtitles are synchronized with the sound, images, and dialogue of the audiovisual work.

Subtitlers

Assist unemployed individuals in finding jobs or vocational training opportunities, according to their educational or professional background and experience. Help job-seekers write CVs and covering letters, prepare for job interviews, and indicate where to search for new job or training opportunities.

Vocational Consultants

Professional Support Services

Provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.

Adapted Physical Education Specialists

Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.

Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

Adult Basic and Secondary Education and Literacy Teachers and Instructors

Teach courses in the agricultural sciences. Includes teachers of agronomy, dairy sciences, fisheries management, horticultural sciences, poultry sciences, range management, and agricultural soil conservation. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in anthropology or archeology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in architecture and architectural design, such as architectural environmental design, interior architecture/design, and landscape architecture. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to the culture and development of an area, an ethnic group, or any other group, such as Latin American studies, women's studies, or urban affairs. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

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.

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in the physical sciences, except chemistry and physics. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Train both new and experienced pilots seeking to gain licences or experience in flying new aircraft, how to properly operate an aircraft according to regulations. Teach students theory and practice of how to optimally fly and maintain an airplane, and observe and evaluate student technique. Includes teachers for recreational flight instruction.

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Aviation Instructors

Teach courses in biological sciences. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Business Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in the fundamentals of sports for the primary purpose of competition. Demonstrate techniques and methods of participation. May evaluate athletes' strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits or to improve the athletes' technique to prepare them for competition. Those required to hold teaching certifications should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.

Coaches and Scouts

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.

Communications Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in computer science. May specialize in a field of computer science, such as the design and function of computers or operations and research analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Apply a multidisciplinary approach to instruct children and adults about the cultural aspects of music, dance, and visual arts. Define the meaning of culture while also exploring the significance of different art forms and customs throughout history.

Self-Enrichment Teachers

Creative Arts Instructors

Teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary

Provide guidance on how to drive a vehicle safely on the roads, enabling students to gain a full understanding of all aspects of driving to increase their skills in a specific area or to gain a full driving licence. Develop the driving ability of their student to make them more responsible, safe, and confident on the road.

Driving Instructors

Teach courses in economics. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach academic and social skills to students at the elementary school level.

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

Elementary School Teachers

Teach courses pertaining to the application of physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and services. Includes teachers of subjects such as chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mineral, and petroleum engineering. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in environmental science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.

Farm and Home Management Educators

Farm and Home Management Advisors

Teach languages and literature courses in languages other than English. Includes teachers of American Sign Language (ASL). Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in forestry and conservation science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in geography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

Assist faculty or other instructional staff in postsecondary institutions by performing instructional support activities, such as developing teaching materials, leading discussion groups, preparing and giving examinations, and grading examinations or papers.

Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in human history and historiography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

History Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Home Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

Provide support to instructors and faculty members in an educational setting. Assist with a variety of functions, including implementing instructional programs, assessing student performance, and other tasks required by instructor.

Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other

Instructional Assistants

Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.

Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education

Kindergarten Teachers

Teach courses in law. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Law Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in library science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science and to the application of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach one or more subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Middle School Teachers

Design and develop training programs for the mining industry in areas such as operations, health and safety, staff training, new technologies, and new employee orientation. Ensure these programs comply with national and provincial regulations.

Teachers and Instructors, All Other

Mining Instructors

Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary

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

Physics Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in political science, international affairs, and international relations. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.

Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

Preschool Teachers

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.

Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach one or more subjects to students at the secondary school level.

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Secondary School Teachers

Teach or instruct individuals or groups for the primary purpose of self-enrichment or recreation, rather than for an occupational objective, educational attainment, competition, or fitness.

Self-Enrichment Education Teachers

Teach courses in social work. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in sociology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach elementary school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.

Special Education Teachers, Elementary School

Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Special Education Teachers, Middle School

Teach academic, social, and life skills to preschool-aged students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Special Education Teachers, Preschool

Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Teach students on a short-term basis as a temporary replacement for a regular classroom teacher, typically using the regular teacher's lesson plan.

Substitute Teachers, Short-Term

Perform duties that are instructional in nature or deliver direct services to students or parents. Serve in a position for which a teacher has ultimate responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.

Teaching Assistants, All Other

Teacher Assistants

Assist a preschool, elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher to provide academic, social, or life skills to students who have learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Serve in a position for which a teacher has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.

Teaching Assistants, Special Education

Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.

Tutors

Teach vocational courses intended to provide occupational training below the baccalaureate level in subjects such as construction, mechanics/repair, manufacturing, transportation, or cosmetology, primarily to students who have graduated from or left high school. Teaching takes place in public or private schools whose primary business is academic or vocational education.

Vocational Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Teaching/Training

There are about 10 million jobs in the education and training cluster. Most careers in this cluster have an average to bright outlook over the next ten years.

Average growth

The U.S. has about 56 million students in public and private schools. Student enrollment increases from elementary school through college are expected over the next 10 years.

That many students?

There are more than 9,000 public community libraries in the U.S. Libraries are also housed in schools and universities, government agencies, and corporations.

More than just public libraries

Museums support more than 700,000 jobs and serve as a community asset to their locations as well as a major attraction for travelers. There are more than 35,000 museums in the country.