| If you love to teach, work well with diverse | | | | A bachelor's degree program includes instruction on |
| populations, and exhibit strong interpersonal skills, you | | | | curriculum development, communication, and the |
| may want to consider a degree in adult education in | | | | practices and theories of adult education. It prepares |
| which you can teach and train other adults. Degrees | | | | you to train others in corporate settings or teach |
| build upon an individual's work experiences and | | | | adults in postsecondary atmospheres, such as a |
| education, qualifying them to work and teach skills in | | | | technical school. Corporate training managers and |
| a specific field. Educators can teach large classrooms | | | | specialists create and execute on-the-job training |
| of students at colleges, universities, and vocational | | | | programs for employees. These programs may |
| schools, small groups of adults in corporate settings, | | | | include specific professional development, employee |
| or work with students on an individual basis. | | | | orientations, or teaching employees how to use new |
| They prepare you to present informative and | | | | software. Government programs offering life and job |
| interesting lectures for your employees or students | | | | skills to underserved populations consistently hire |
| by promoting the skills and abilities necessary to | | | | training specialists and managers to work with their |
| initiate, design, develop, organize, and implement | | | | clients and determine what type of training they |
| effective adult educational programs. These courses | | | | need. These programs vary from literacy skills to |
| also emphasize the development of the theoretical | | | | basic budgeting depending upon the clients they |
| and practical foundation for critical thinking and | | | | serve. |
| effective practices. These courses explain the | | | | However, most degrees are within master's |
| different ways adults can learn, enabling educators to | | | | programs. This higher-level coursework includes adult |
| teach adults, plan learning experiences, and conduct | | | | education administration, planning and executing adult |
| pertinent research. | | | | education programs, and adult education in social |
| Degree programs are designed for instructors, | | | | contexts. A master's degree in adult education |
| administrators, trainers, and others who teach or plan | | | | provides additional education and preparation for |
| adult educational programs in a wide range of | | | | professionals seeking training or postsecondary |
| environments. Students come from a variety of | | | | teaching positions, and is commonly a minimum |
| work areas, such as adult literacy, community | | | | requirement for teaching at the college or university |
| colleges and higher education, community-based | | | | level. For example, a person with a college degree in |
| organizations, health care, business and industry, law | | | | finance who earns a graduate degree in adult |
| enforcement, government, and military. These | | | | education may go on to teach university courses in |
| programs equip students to teach adults in various | | | | accounting. |
| settings and fields. | | | | Professionals devoted to adult education that want |
| Associate's degrees focus primarily on the vocational | | | | to change or influence policy, take on a leadership |
| education industry. They typically include courses in | | | | role, or perform groundbreaking research, continue |
| adult psychology and human behavior. Vocational | | | | work onto their PhD. in adult education. These |
| educators can start their careers with an associate's | | | | programs focus primarily on research and graduates |
| degree and work experience in their field. For | | | | often pursue careers as administrators or professors. |
| example, a person with welding work experience | | | | College and university administrators include |
| may obtain their associate's degree in education and | | | | department chairs, deans, and university presidents, |
| then teach welding at a vocational school. These | | | | who govern the school and supervise staff. They |
| degrees can also help prepare students for entry into | | | | spend typically spend time teaching, fundraising, |
| bachelor's programs. | | | | budgeting, and working in personnel development. |