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What specific job titles fall under the Department of Education’s 11 professional categories?
Executive summary
Available sources in the search set do not provide a single, authoritative list mapping the U.S. Department of Education’s “11 professional categories” to specific job titles; the collection instead contains assorted state, local and federal job pages and reporting about agency reorganization (not a category-to-title roster) [1] [2] [3]. What the materials do show is that education employers list many distinct job titles — e.g., teachers, principals, instructional aides, counselors, and program specialists — but none of the supplied pages explicitly enumerates an “11 professional categories” schema for the Department of Education [4] [5].
1. What the available reporting actually covers: job postings and program moves
The results include career or job-listing pages (New York City Schools careers, State Dept. of Education pages, DoDEA, etc.) that show the variety of positions hired in education — for example Teachers, Principals and Assistant Principals, Educational Aides, Instructional System Specialists, and Office/administrative posts — but these pages are organized as job-opening directories, not as a formal “11 professional categories” taxonomy published by the U.S. Department of Education [5] [4] [6].
2. Examples of common titles that appear across sources
Multiple pages explicitly mention several recurring job types: classroom teachers and school-level professionals (school counselors, nurses, psychologists, occupational and physical therapists) on the DoDEA careers page; principals and assistant principals; and educational aides and instructional specialists — all of which demonstrate the breadth of roles that could be grouped into categorical buckets, though the exact 11-category breakdown is not provided in these materials [4].
3. Local and state lists show many more granular titles
State and local department pages in the sample list numerous specialist and advisor roles — e.g., “Adult Basic & Literacy Education Advisor,” “Bilingual Education Advisor,” “Career and Technical Education Advisor,” and many central-office vacancies — illustrating that a federal “11 categories” grouping would have to encompass both school‑level and central‑office professional positions [7] [2].
4. The U.S. Department of Education site in the set is procedural, not classificatory
The U.S. Department of Education “Working at ED” page in the results provides guidance about finding jobs and internships and directs people to USAJOBS, but it does not, within the provided snippet, list an 11-category professional classification or a canonical roster of titles under such categories [1].
5. Reporting about agency reorganizations is not a substitute for occupational taxonomy
Recent journalism in the set focuses on program shifts and structural changes at the federal level — for instance, moving many programs to other agencies — which may affect where functions live but does not publish a standardized list of professional categories and their job titles [3] [8] [9].
6. Why you might be seeing references to “categories” elsewhere — and the limits of these sources
Education systems often organize vacancies into categories (e.g., “Teachers,” “Principals,” “Administrative,” “Support Services”), and local job portals show such groupings (NYC Schools career landing categories), but the sources here do not supply a federal document that maps exactly 11 named categories to specific job titles at ED. Therefore, any precise mapping would require a source outside this set or direct confirmation from the Department of Education’s official HR/classification materials — available sources do not mention an authoritative 11-category list for the U.S. Department of Education [5] [1].
7. Practical next steps to get the precise list you want
To obtain an official, verifiable mapping of “11 professional categories” to job titles: check the Department of Education’s human resources or organizational/classification pages on ed.gov or USAJOBS for a classification schedule; request the department’s HR classification manual; or consult a federal personnel systems page that lists occupational series and ED-specific groupings — these specific documents are not present in the current search results [1].
Limitations and final note: The provided sources include many concrete job-title examples across local and federal education employers (e.g., Teachers, Principals, Educational Aides, Instructional System Specialists), but they do not contain an explicit “11 professional categories” list for the U.S. Department of Education; therefore, this answer relied strictly on what the supplied pages show and identifies the gap for readers seeking that exact taxonomy [4] [5] [7].