Education Administrator

Welcome to The 2011 Hot Jobs Guide

Why It’s Hot:

• Although job growth for educational administrators is only expected to keep pace with the average of 8%, working administrators should see excellent career opportunities because of the large number of expected retirements. As with other teaching jobs, more vacancies will exist in urban and rural communities.

• What You’ll Do:

Education administrators perform a wide variety of duties and work in a variety of fields. Education administrators often work in schools, including smaller day care centers or childcare facilities, elementary and middle schools, high schools, and colleges and universities. Education administrators can also work for businesses, conducting careercounseling courses or working with employees to improve their work habits and knowledge of their jobs. Education administrators who work in school environments are responsible for a number of tasks. These tasks including planning a budget, event planning, creating a plan for educational goals and ways to achieve those goals, and monitoring progress of both students and staff members. Principals are also responsible for hiring teachers and staff members. In order to ensure a high quality of education for students, principals often evaluate teachers based on classroom observation, studying class materials and learning procedures. Principals must be able to evaluate the strength of assignments to determine whether or not lessons are helpful to students, and create new learning plans and

assignments to accommodate new technology in the classroom