Instructional Coordinators

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Curriculum and Instruction Director, Curriculum Coordinator, Instructional Designer, Instructional Technologist

What they do:
Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.
On the job, you would:
  • Observe work of teaching staff to evaluate performance and to recommend changes that could strengthen teaching skills.
  • Plan and conduct teacher training programs and conferences dealing with new classroom procedures, instructional materials and equipment, and teaching aids.
  • Interpret and enforce provisions of state education codes and rules and regulations of state education boards.

Knowledge

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Arts and Humanities

  • English language
  • philosophy and religion

Business

  • management
  • customer service

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • teaching people how to do something
  • changing what is done based on other people's actions

Abilities

Verbal

  • read and understand what is written
  • communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems

Memory

  • remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps

Math

  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Integrity
  • Initiative
  • Leadership
  • Dependability
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Cooperation

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Video creation and editing software

  • Adobe After Effects Hot Technology
  • Flipgrid

Computer based training software

  • Moodle
  • Schoology

Web platform development software

  • Cascading style sheets CSS Hot Technology
  • Drupal Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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