Career Explorer Education
Changing shape
Instructional coordinators
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.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 21% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +1.6% by 2035, slower than average. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $77,440
- Job growth to 2035
- +1.6%
- Openings a year
- 23,100
- People doing it (2025)
- 249,000
- Usual route in
- Master's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise others on educational or vocational matters
- Prepare informational or instructional materials
- Promote products, services, or programs
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Evaluate personnel capabilities or performance
- Train others on operational or work procedures
- Serve on organizational committees
What the work looks like
- 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.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Social work teachers, postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 28, +2.6%
- Psychology teachers, postsecondaryGrows with AI, Index 23, +4.0%
- Architecture teachers, postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 34, +2.6%
- Training and development specialistsGrows with AI, Index 57, +10.8%
Also known as: Curriculum and Instruction Director, Curriculum Coordinator, Instructional Designer, Instructional Technologist, Curriculum Director, Curriculum Specialist, Education Specialist, Instructional Systems Specialist.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.