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Teaching/Education

Specific interest area · O*NET

Teaching/Education is a specific interest area in the O*NET database, part of the Social Holland family. O*NET describes it as: "Work involves teaching through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects." It is scored for 891 occupations, which average 2.12 out of 7 on the Occupational Interest scale.

How it's measured

O*NET scores each occupation on this interest on a 0–7 Occupational Interest (OI) scale, where higher means the work more strongly rewards this interest. The figures here are those occupation-level scores — a description of what kind of work each job involves, not a ranking of which job is better, harder, or higher-paid.

Economy-wide average 2.12 / 7 Mean across all 891 scored occupations
Range across occupations 1.00–7.00 Lowest to highest occupation score (spread 6.00)
Prevalence vs. other interests 80th pct Where this interest's average ranks among all O*NET interest dimensions

Occupations that fit this interest best

The occupations that score this interest strongest on the 0–7 scale.

Occupation Score
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 7.00
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 7.00
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 7.00
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 7.00
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 7.00
Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors 6.91
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School 6.91
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 6.86
Geography Teachers, Postsecondary 6.86
Special Education Teachers, Elementary School 6.86
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Education Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary 6.81
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten 6.81
Special Education Teachers, Middle School 6.81
Special Education Teachers, Preschool 6.81
Business Teachers, Postsecondary 6.77
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School 6.77
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary 6.77
Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary 6.77
History Teachers, Postsecondary 6.77

Occupations that fit this interest least

The occupations that score this interest weakest — where the work rarely rewards it.

Occupation Score
Helpers--Extraction Workers 1.00
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 1.00
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 1.00
Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining 1.00
Log Graders and Scalers 1.00
Machine Feeders and Offbearers 1.00
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 1.00
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic 1.00
Packers and Packagers, Hand 1.00
Pile Driver Operators 1.00
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 1.00
Pourers and Casters, Metal 1.00
Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials 1.00
Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons 1.00
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors 1.00
Rock Splitters, Quarry 1.00
Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders 1.00
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters 1.00
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 1.00
Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Tire Builders 1.00
Tire Repairers and Changers 1.00
Wellhead Pumpers 1.00

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

  • O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Teaching/Education." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/interests/teaching-education

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Teaching/Education. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/interests/teaching-education

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-teaching-education,
  title  = {Teaching/Education},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/interests/teaching-education}
}

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