You train teachers to use educational technology. As an Instructional Technology Teacher, you're delivering professional development, creating resources, and helping educators leverage technology for better learning.
Instructional managers oversee the instructional or learning and development function within organizations—managing a team of instructional designers, trainers, or educators; overseeing program portfolios; and aligning instructional resources with organizational learning priorities.
The transition from design to management requires shifting from solving instructional problems yourself to enabling others to solve them well. That shift—from individual contributor to team leader—tends to require developing new instincts around coaching, feedback, and project oversight.
People who tend to do well have strong instructional foundations combined with genuine interest in team leadership and organizational management. If you can maintain enough technical currency to support your designers credibly while also managing upward, setting priorities, and building team capacity, instructional management tends to be a natural career progression for experienced IDs who want broader organizational influence and find developing others as satisfying as doing the design work themselves.
Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.
Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.
You train teachers to use educational technology. As an Instructional Technology Teacher, you're delivering professional development, creating resources, and helping educators leverage technology for better learning.
Median pay for an Instructional Manager is about $75K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $47K to $115K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Learning Strategies, Instructing, Writing, Speaking, and Monitoring.
Most people in this role hold a master's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 1.3% through 2034, with roughly 210,850 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Instructional Material Director, Instructional Materials Director, and Education Coordinator.
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