Sample job titles for Education majors:
Adult Education Teacher
Curriculum Specialist
Day Care Administrator
Education Management Specialist
Educational Consultant
Educational Materials Sales Representative
Educational Researcher
Elementary/Secondary Teacher
Guidance Counselor
Human Resources Manager
Media Specialist
School Administrator
School Psychologist
Special Education Teacher
Speech Pathologist 
Student Personnel Administrator
Textbook Editor
Training Specialist
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor 

Types of employers:
Business & Industry
Churches
Colleges/Universities
Community Centers
Day Care Centers
Educational Publishers
Government Agencies
Hospitals
Libraries
Non-Profits
Public/Private Schools
Youth Services

Resources in the Career Services Library: Over 1200 books, pamphlets, and periodicals are available in the Careers Library to help you with self-assessment, career exploration, the job search, and graduate school planning.  Some good library resources for students with a concentration in Education looking for career links include
Careers For Kids At Heart & Others Who Adore
            Children
Careers in Education 
Careers in Social Work
Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books
Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors
How to Get the Teaching Job You Want
One Day, All Children … The Unlikely Triumph of Teach
           for America
Teacher Career Starter

Other sources of information:  Career counselors, alumni, and faculty members are great resources.  Visit the Careers Office early and often, and talk to professors in your major and related fields.  Ask at the Careers Office for help locating Davidson alums in career fields that interest you and set up informational interviews with them.  Professional associations are excellent sources of career and employment information, and many of them have websites.  Surf the internet, keeping in mind that many colleges and universities have websites for their Career Centers and for each academic major.  Many of these sites include career and employment information as well as links to professional associations and other useful websites. Contact the following organizations and websites for more information:

American Counseling Association 
http://www.counseling.org/

American Educational Research Association
http://www.aera.net/

American Federation of Teachers 
http://www.aft.org/index.html

American Society for Training &  Development
http://www.astd.org/

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org/

Davidson College Education Department
http://www.davidson.edu/academic/education/education.html

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/

Univ. of Delaware Career Services Center, Major Resource Kits
http://www.udel.edu/CSC/mrk.html

University of North Carolina Wilmington Career Services
http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/education.htm

(Current as of 12/05)