Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language.

Other names for Education Teachers, Postsecondary: Special Education Professor, Student Teaching Coordinator, Teacher Education Director, Visual Education Teacher, Visual Educator, Certification Officer, College Professor, Counselor Education Professor, Department Chair, Education Professor, Education Teacher, Educational Administration Teacher, Faculty Member, Field Coordinator, Field Placement Director, Instructor, Lecturer, Literacy Education Professor, Mathematics Education Professor, Professor, Science Education Professor, Secondary Education Professor,

• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
• Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
• Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge, and publish findings in professional journals, books, and/or electronic media.
• Select and obtain materials and supplies such as textbooks.
• Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
• Advise and instruct teachers employed in school systems, by providing activities such as in-service seminars.
• Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
• Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
• Participate in campus and community events.
• Perform administrative duties such as serving as department head.
• Act as advisers to student organizations.
• Provide professional consulting services to government and/or industry.
• Prepare course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate and/or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.
• Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
• Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
• Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
• Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.
• Keep abreast of developments in their field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Advise students on academic and vocational curricula, and on career issues.
• Maintain regularly scheduled office hours in order to advise and assist students.