The field of education includes teaching, administrative, and coaching positions in public schools and charter schools, independent schools, higher education, summer camps, and adult education. It can also include educational policy, research and consulting; educational non-profits and organizations often related to access and social justice; and educational publishing and technology, as well as a myriad of careers such as museum education, health education, environmental education, and training in businesses and organizations.
Almost 25% of Middlebury alumni work in the field of education – this is a higher percentage than any other industry, including finance! Middlebury alums are college professors, elementary school teachers, high school counselors and speech pathologists, deans, admissions counselors, directors and program coordinators at educational non-profits, educational consultants, editors at university presses, teachers at gap-year and semester programs, environmental educators, nutritionists, museum educators, and more.
And Middlebury students have taken part in thousands of different types of educational internships from Breakthrough Collaborative, to the Department of Education, to Grass Roots Soccer.
Approximately 17% of jobs and internships posted in MOJO are related to Education, so there are lots of opportunities posted throughout the year. If you don’t see what you’re interested in, just keep coming back; new positions are posted every day. And don’t forget to look on LACN (Liberal Arts Career Network) or Idealist.org. Both are full of education-related positions.
What You Can Expect
You could be drawn to work in education if any of the following are true:
- You want to make a difference in people’s lives…
- You love to share information with others…
- You have a passion for a particular subject area…
- You want to influence the next generation…
- You love kids…
- You love researching, writing, and creating knowledge…
- You believe deeply that everyone has a right to be successful…
- You want to influence educational policy…
- You love sports…
- You want to connect people to their environment…
- You are good at mentoring others…
- You want to teach in another country…
Areas of Focus
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