Ask your counselor if there's a tutoring or after-school program at your school that you can volunteer with. Helping your peers will help you discover if you like to work with students.

Volunteer as a tutor.

Learn how to create and implement learning experiences for students by taking a class in instructional design online or at your school.

Learn more about instructional design.

There are many paths to becoming a teacher. Learn more about helpful tips and steps you can start taking today to start your career in teaching! 

Find out how to become a teacher.

Find a mentor at your school and ask if you can talk to them about their path to education. Be ready with 4 or 5 things you want to ask, from what the job is like, to how they overcame any obstacles.

Interview an educator at your school.

Watch this video to learn more about the five themes of geography, including relevant examples of each. Which theme interests you most? Why?

Learn about the five themes of geography.

Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

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

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Postsecondary Teachers

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as urbanization, environmental systems, and cultural geography.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

Overview

Career

What Geography Teachers, Postsecondary Do

Other Job Titles Geography Teachers, Postsecondary May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

Overview

Career

What Geography Teachers, Postsecondary Do

Other Job Titles Geography Teachers, Postsecondary May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

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