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Elementary School Teachers

• Total Employment: 1,173,960
• Average Annual Salary: $49,702

• Bachelor's Degree
• Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

• Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
• Involve parent volunteers and older students in children's activities to facilitate involvement in focused, complex play.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Perform administrative duties such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
• Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
• Read books to entire classes or small groups.
• Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine student strengths and areas of need.

• Experience
• A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
• Education
• Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
• Job Training
• Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
• Examples
• Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, environmental engineers, criminal investigators, and special agents.