Instructional Coordinators

Instructional Coordinators typically perform the following tasks: • 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. • Conduct or participate in workshops, committees, and conferences designed to promote the intellectual, social, and physical welfare of students. • Advise teaching and administrative staff in curriculum development, use of materials and equipment, and implementation of state and federal programs and procedures. • Advise and teach students. • Recommend, order, or authorize purchase of instructional materials, supplies, equipment, and visual aids designed to meet student educational needs and district standards. • Update the content of educational programs to ensure that students are being trained with equipment and processes that are technologically current. • Address public audiences to explain program objectives and to elicit support. • Research, evaluate, and prepare recommendations on curricula, instructional methods, and materials for school systems. • Prepare grant proposals, budgets, and program policies and goals or assist in their preparation. • Prepare or approve manuals, guidelines, and reports on state educational policies and practices for distribution to school districts. • Coordinate activities of workers engaged in cataloging, distributing, and maintaining educational materials and equipment in curriculum libraries and laboratories. • Adapt instructional content or delivery methods for different levels or types of learners. • Analyze performance data to determine effectiveness of instructional systems, courses, or instructional materials. • Assess effectiveness and efficiency of instruction according to ease of instructional technology use and student learning, knowledge transfer, and satisfaction. • Conduct needs assessments and strategic learning assessments to develop the basis for curriculum development or to update curricula. • Define instructional, learning, or performance objectives. • Design instructional aids for stand-alone or instructor-led classroom or online use. • Design learning products, including Web-based aids or electronic performance support systems.