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Instructional Coordinators

$66.49K Median Salary 20.4K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 9.7% Job Growth

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About This Career

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.

Reported Job Titles

Curriculum and Instruction Director, Curriculum Coordinator, Curriculum Director, Curriculum Specialist, Education Specialist, Instructional Designer, Instructional Systems Specialist, Instructional Technologist, Learning Development Specialist, Program Administrator

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Abilities

Written Comprehension

Oral Expression

Written Expression

Oral Comprehension

Speech Clarity

Problem Sensitivity

Speech Recognition

Deductive Reasoning

Near Vision

Category Flexibility

Inductive Reasoning

Information Ordering

Originality

Fluency of Ideas

Far Vision

Memorization

Flexibility of Closure

Mathematical Reasoning

Number Facility

Selective Attention

Visualization

Knowledge

Education and Training

English Language

Administration and Management

Mathematics

Computers and Electronics

Customer and Personal Service

Public Safety and Security

Personnel and Human Resources

Communications and Media

Sociology and Anthropology

Philosophy and Theology

Psychology

Administrative

Skills

Learning Strategies

Instructing

Speaking

Writing

Active Listening

Monitoring

Reading Comprehension

Active Learning

Complex Problem Solving

Coordination

Critical Thinking

Social Perceptiveness

Judgment and Decision Making

Service Orientation

Time Management

Persuasion

Systems Analysis

Systems Evaluation

Management of Personnel Resources

Negotiation

Technology Skills

Video creation and editing software

Computer based training software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Web platform development software

Web page creation and editing software

Desktop publishing software

Network conferencing software

Multi-media educational software

Presentation software

Data base user interface and query software

Project management software

Spreadsheet software

Electronic mail software

Document management software

Office suite software

Music or sound editing software

Development environment software

Desktop communications software

Enterprise application integration software

Cloud-based data access and sharing software

Word processing software

Data base management system software

Graphical user interface development software

Charting software

Object or component oriented development software

Human resources software

Internet browser software

Process mapping and design software

Tools

Photocopiers

Mobile phones

Scanners

Graphics tablets

Notebook computers

Touch screen monitors

MP3 players or recorders

Laser printers

Digital camcorders or video cameras

Digital video disk players or recorders

Special purpose telephones

Overhead projectors

Multimedia projectors

Video cassette players or recorders

Digital cameras

Desktop computers

Personal computers

Tablet computers

Abilities

Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Knowledge

Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

Skills

Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

Technology Skills

Video creation and editing software: YouTube
Computer based training software: BrainTrain IVA+Plus; Language arts educational software; Math educational software
Graphics or photo imaging software: SmugMug Flickr
Web platform development software: Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
Web page creation and editing software: Facebook; Google Sites; LinkedIn; Social media sites
Desktop publishing software: Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign; Microsoft Publisher
Network conferencing software: LogMeIn GoToWebinar
Multi-media educational software: Interactive learning software
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software: Blackboard software; Database software; Microsoft Access; Yardi software
Project management software: Mavenlink; Microsoft Project
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Electronic mail software: IBM Notes; Microsoft Exchange; Microsoft Outlook
Document management software: Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat; Filing system software; Records management software; Transcription system software
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software
Music or sound editing software: Music software
Development environment software: Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite
Desktop communications software: Edmodo
Enterprise application integration software: Electronic Data Interchange EDI systems
Cloud-based data access and sharing software: Dropbox; Google Drive; Microsoft SharePoint
Word processing software: 3M Post-it App; Evernote; Google Docs; Microsoft Word
Data base management system software: Apache Solr; Elasticsearch; MySQL
Graphical user interface development software: Adobe Systems Adobe RoboHelp
Charting software: Aeronautical charts
Object or component oriented development software: Oracle Java
Human resources software: ADP Workforce Now
Internet browser software: Web browser software
Process mapping and design software: Microsoft Visio

Tools

Photocopiers: Photocopying equipment
Mobile phones:
Scanners: Data input scanners
Graphics tablets: Digital paper
Notebook computers: Laptop computers
Touch screen monitors: Interactive whiteboards
MP3 players or recorders: MP3 digital voice recorders
Laser printers: Computer laser printers
Digital camcorders or video cameras: Digital video cameras
Digital video disk players or recorders: Digital video disk DVD players
Special purpose telephones: Multi-line telephone systems
Overhead projectors: Overhead data projectors
Multimedia projectors: Computer projectors; Multimedia projection equipment
Video cassette players or recorders: Video cassette recorders VCR
Digital cameras:
Desktop computers:
Personal computers:
Tablet computers:

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