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http://newsfirst.lk/tamil/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Classroom.jpgEffectiveness in the classroom is one of the main priorities of educators from the federal level all the way to the youngest classrooms. Though we spend thousands of dollars a year per student, we’ve yet to see completely promising returns on the investment, leading many to call for advanced techniques utilized in the curriculum. With technology taking over every industry, American education has fallen behind many of its international peers because of a lack of implementing technology successfully into the classroom. If you’re somebody who wishes to help catapult our education system into the 21st century, then the career of instructional coordinator is a perfect fit.

Projected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to grow 13% over the next decade, instructional coordinators create and implement school curricula and standards for teachers. One of the most novel of these advancements made in the last few years is the idea of the “Flipped Classroom”. In this concept, teachers lecture and put those online for students to access. Once a student has watched and taken notes on the lecture at home, time in class is spent assisting students in gaining a deeper understanding of the topics at hand.

This has been shown to elicit major successes, especially among lower-performing students. Technology enters this field by the way teachers decide to “flip” the classroom. With schools increasingly purchasing tablets to use for education, directly uploading all of the lectures to the students’ personal school tablets will allow for the exponential amount of education apps to compliment the outside-the-classroom experience. While in, teachers can keep pushing forward with tablets, or use time-tested technologies like power points to assign students problems or work out complex ideas on a large-scale environment.http://www.tamuk.edu/cehp/edlc/teach/Images/Classroom.jpg

If this career interests you, the best way to enter it is to attain a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. Online programs like Saint Xavier University offer M.A. degrees in Curriculum and Instruction,and they comprehensively prepare students for becoming great boons to teachers. In these programs, students learn how to successfully implement technology into the classroom, while also gaining valuable knowledge and experience in research projects and other standard skills required for the degree like instructional theory and the anthropology and sociology of education. Teachers need to stay up-to-date on the latest technological advancements, because it’s a sure bet that their students are as savvy as anybody. In this way, instructional coordinators play an extraordinarily valuable role in securing a bright future for our students and the nation.

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