Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers (postsecondary) teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. This includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondary, deliver lectures to postsecondary students on topics such as criminal law, defensive policing, and investigation techniques. Law teacher jobs require candidates to initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions, evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers and administer and grade examinations.
Criminal justice teaching jobs involve training and teaching others, organising and planning, interpreting the meaning of information for others, coaching and developing others, and updating and using relevant information.
How to become a law teacher? Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers require a master’s degree or a PhD. The skills required include effective communication, monitoring, problem-solving, decision making, time management, service orientation and social perceptiveness.
Online criminal justice teaching jobs require knowledge of computers and computer networking, processing information and individualised attention to students’ needs.
Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers perform other administrative functions of maintaining student records, directing departmental activities, advising students on curricula and career matters, etc. They write reports, grant proposals, and letters of recommendation for students. Law teacher criminal law jobs require teachers to attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop professional knowledge and stay informed about current developments in the field of specialization. Those teachers involved in research work publish their work in books and journals.
Qualifications
Every career requires an element of study and academic qualification, and there can be several study routes and pathways you can take. In following any academic pathway you will study subjects that contribute to the specialised knowledge required to achieve your career goals. These qualifications provide a future employer with the evidence that you have the desired knowledge, understanding and experience of their industry, so it’s important to consider the various types of qualifications available to you and to understand how they can boost your career and create opportunities for you.
- Ph.D. Law
- LLM Master of Laws
- LLB Bachelor of Legislative Law
- Bachelor's Any Subject
Tasks
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as criminal law, defensive policing, and investigation techniques.
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
- Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
- Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
Progression Routes
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