Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Education and Training
Teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

What a recreation and fitness studies teacher, postsecondary does

Become a recreation and fitness studies teacher, postsecondary

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good recreation and fitness studies teacher, postsecondary

  • Talking to others.
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
  • Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

  • Average salary of $63,000 per year.

Recreation And Fitness Studies Teacher, Postsecondary job outlook

  • There are 249 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 63 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

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Education needed

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

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