The Results-Oriented Education Workplace

Education jobs, whether teaching, counseling or athletics, are involved in a lot of detail. When education people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Education Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this education job accomplish for the organization?

Education Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Education Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Education Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and legally sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Education Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, education jobs--

PREPARES STUDENTS FOR MEANINGFUL LIVES by

following school goals; modifying plans on the basis of student readiness; presenting information and technique; assessing educational progress; coaching, counseling, and disciplining students.

Types of Education Jobs

Most education jobs are involved in giving students information whether by lecture, demonstration, coaching, and/or assignments. Teachers assess students' capabilities and learning, and test progress toward learning objectives.

Other jobs support teachers-preparing equipment and media, maintaining libraries, counseling students, providing first aid and health guidance.

Still other jobs process admissions, prepare curricula, advise foreign students, and organize extra-curricular activities. And, of course, somebody has to manage and supervise the education people and processes.

Education Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how education job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Education Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Education Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the education results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Education situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Education recommendations are ready when needed.

Education Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future education issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver education recommendations by 10% by (date).

Education Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each education job description are more helpful (and legal) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Education Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Education Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Education Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present education recommendations."

The Education Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Education Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Education Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her education work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the education job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Education Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Education Job Description and Education Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the education job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS EDUCATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the education job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving education processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new education system controls.

Education Career Links

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Education Administrators

Training and education needed for education administrator jobs, earnings, expected job prospects, what education administrators do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teachers - Special Education

Training and education needed for special education teachers, earnings, expected job prospects, what special education teachers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teachers - Self-Enrichment Education

Training and education needed for self-enrichment teachers, earnings, expected job prospects, what self-enrichment teachers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teachers - Pre-school, Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and Secondary

Training and education needed for pre-school, kindergarten, elementary, middle and secondary school teachers, earnings, expected job prospects, what pre-school, kindergarten, elementary, middle and secondary school teachers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teachers - Postsecondary

Training and education needed for postsecondary teachers, earnings, expected job prospects, what postsecondary teachers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teachers - Adult Literacy and Remedial Education

Training and education needed for adult literacy and remedial education teachers, earnings, expected job prospects, what adult literacy and remedial education teachers do on the job, and working conditions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Teacher Assistants

Training and education needed for teacher assistant jobs, earnings, expected job prospects, what teacher assistants do on the job, and working conditions.

CareersandEducation.com, Education

Information about universities, colleges, and career success.

Education World, Education Career Center

Articles, resources, certification requirements, employment center.

American Mathematical Society

Surveys, information, people, issues, outreach projects, funding and fellowships, programs for students.

American Library Association, Education and Careers

Career overview, education and degrees, professional development, employment opportunities, recruitment.

National Education Association

Teachers' association; information for members, educators, parents and community, issues in education, legislation.

CareerOverview.com, Education and Teaching Careers

Non-commercial website dedicated to providing aspiring career professionals and students with relevant, reliable and up-to-date career and job information whereby helping them to make better, more informed career choices.