What Do Home Economics Professors Do (including Their Typical Day At Work)

Job Description

Home Economics Professors 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. They also evaluate and grade students’ class work, laboratory work, projects, assignments, and papers.

Other tasks include:

• Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child care.
• 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.
• Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
• Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

We asked Home Economics Professors how satisfied they are with their job. Here is what they said.

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73% of them said they were satisfied with their job and 73% said they find that their job makes the world a better place or helps to make someone else’s life better.

Typical Day At Work

On a daily basis, Home Economics Professors supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work. They evaluate and grade students’ class work, laboratory work, projects, assignments, and papers.

A typical day for a Postsecondary Home Economics Teacher will also include:

• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
• Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child care.
• Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

We asked some Home Economics Professors a few questions to find out what else does their work day look like. Here is what we found.

	Do you have telephone conversations everyday in this job?	54% said yes
	How important is it to work in a team in this job?	51% said very important
	Do you have group discussions everyday in this job?	82% said yes
	Do you talk or work with customers everyday in this job?	31% said yes
	Do you have to deal with angry customers everyday in this job?	16% said yes
	Do you have to make decisions everyday in this job?	33% said yes

Other responsibilities

Besides their typical day, Home Economics Professors also initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. They may also maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

On a weekly to monthly basis, Home Economics Professors Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child care. They might also Participate in campus and community events.

In addition, they Act as advisers to student organizations.

Although specific duties may vary, many of them Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

To some Home Economics Professors, it is also their responsibility to Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Working life

More than 40 hours per week

Regular schedule like a 9 to 5

In a typical work week as a Postsecondary Home Economics Teacher, you can expect to work more than 40 hours per week.

Is this right for me

People who are suitable for this job tends to like working with, communicating with, and teaching people. They like helping or providing service to others..

They also like working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. They like searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

You can read more about these career personality types here.

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