As a world history teacher, your job is to provide your students with an education on various aspects of world history. Your duties include grading paperwork, creating assignments, and answering questions about current and historical events. Your responsibilities may also involve participating in additional school activities such as helping students conduct research or obtain a postsecondary degree in world history. World history teachers usually work at secondary and post-secondary levels. Many world history teachers focus on specific periods of time, especially if teaching in middle school or high school, though tenured professors at colleges often have a much deeper and wider base of historical knowledge.