Instructional Coordinators

Also Called:

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.

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Education

Career Cluster

What do they typically do on the job?

  • 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.

Personality

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

Leadership Orientation

Innovation

Adaptability

Empathy

Achievement Orientation

Cooperation

Interests

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Abilities

Whether you have received formal training or not, these types of abilities are helpful in this career.

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

Skills

People who want to pursue this career have skills in these areas.

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

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Data for NSI career cards comes from the following: Idaho Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, MyNextMove, and Career OneStop