10 Hot Education Career Trends for Teachers in 2016Educators have been scanning headlines to discover education career trends for teachers and the predictions for the upcoming year. This is because they understand that keeping up with the latest developments in education provides them with an edge, gives them insight, and allows them to be more proactive. If you’re interested in learning about your current field and possibly the future direction of your career, here are the ten trends you should look out for this year.

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1) Teachers Will Have Career Options Beyond the Classroom:

Teachers will not limit themselves to the classroom; they will expand their options within teaching through one of the hot education careers listed below.

(a) Education Consultant: In this role, educators will act as independent academic advisors who will be hired by parents or the school. They’ll advise students on educational and career opportunities, enabling them to make decisions about schools and/or college majors.

(b) Curriculum Developer: Also known as an instructional coordinator, a curriculum developer focuses on the topics which students learn and the materials their educators use in the classroom. If you opt for this job, you’ll be entrusted with observing teachers to recommend changes that could improve student performance. You’ll also have to make changes to the school’s curricula, ensuring that it’s in line with the state’s standards.

(c) Career Counselor: A career counselor analyzes individuals’ education level, work history, interest, skills, and personality to determine which careers they should pursue. In this role, your aim is to balance job satisfaction and financial payoff, be it for people who are jobless, just entering the workforce, between jobs, or unhappy with their career choices.

(d) Master Teacher: A master teacher is entrusted with a variety of tasks as they’re supposed to set an example for other teachers. In addition to mentoring both students and teachers, providing both with advanced instructional techniques, you’ll be entrusted with providing opinion on the current curriculum and developing classes and courses for students.

(e) Virtual Instructor: Also known as an online teacher, a virtual instructor imparts knowledge through technological instruction systems and tools. They interact with students through computerized, audio or visual equipment. While many deem this as the challenging aspect of online learning, the need to design a compelling and enriching curriculum is why this role isn’t for everyone.

(f) Charter Schools Innovator: Another unique role, charter schools innovator allows educators to devise and implement innovative ways to teach students while being held accountable for advancing student achievement. As there’s not much information on this role, you may need to contact a charter school for more information.

(g) Instructional Leader: As an instructional leader, you’ll be in charge of establishing goals, managing curriculum, monitoring lesson plans, and evaluating resources to ensure student learning and growth. As a school principal, assistant principal, program administrator or departmental administrator, you’ll also be entrusted with the legal, financial, and administrative tasks of the school.

2) Education Tech Investment Will Continue Growing:

After receiving 55% more funding last year, the education tech investment globally is expected to reach $107 billion this year. To ensure that you’re ready for the tech your students will ask for, here are the five biggest trends expected in this area.

(a) Adaptive Learning Software –This type of software will help teachers create personalized, effective lesson plans based on data collected from students. Adaptive learning solutions will further predict which students may fall off track and which are ready to move on to higher level concepts.

(b) Adaptive Learning Styles – Teachers need to embrace new teaching tools rather than limit themselves to textbooks and chalkboard teaching styles. Through these, teachers can engage students through video, mobile and other channels they are used to.

(c) Classroom Flipping – Classroom flipping is one of the strongest trends in tech. Basically, it allows students to watch lectures or handle reading assignments at home and then work on their homework or assignments in class with their teachers. With 2016 offering better analytics and more interactivity, expect higher student engagement.

(d) Increased Access to Resources Globally – Thanks to hi-speed internet access, digital education resources are spreading like wildfire. Students can learn anywhere and from any country as a result.

(e) Virtual Reality Use in Classrooms – Virtual reality offers students immersive lab experiences, especially during subjects like science, engineering, and mathematics.

3) K-12 and Post-Secondary Will Collaborate to Ensure Student Success:

In 2016, K-12 and post-secondary faculty are expected to work closely together, aligning what they teach in order to ensure students’ success in college and afterwards. This because a necessity as employers would often complain about graduates not being ready for jobs while colleges blamed high schools for sending through students who aren’t capable of college-level work. With Common Core State Standards adopted in many states by this year, this trend is definitely coming your way.

4) Students Will Become Creators: Traditionally, students were trained to consume a lot of information over the course of twenty-some years of their lives.

This educational process did entail engagement and interaction, but creation wasn’t part of it. This will change in 2016 as creativity and ingenuity are a necessity in today’s workplace. In fact, creativity is deemed an important leadership quality that can ensure the success of a business. Moreover, by allowing students to become creators, educators assist them in developing their problem-solving skills as well.

5) Alternative Credentialing Will Spread Further: Since 2015, the number of alternative programs offered by higher education

institutions has increased. From Boot camp programs to massive open online courses (MOOCs) for credit and all the way to mini degrees like MIT’s Micro Masters, non-degree programs will be used to complement an educational institution’s offerings, filling the need for the flexible, accessible training required for students’ vocational education.

6) Teachers Will Teach the Value of Failing Intelligently:

Many entrepreneurs, especially those in Silicon Valley, have been openly sharing what went wrong with their ventures. This is because they believe that failing intelligently is an important skill. Without it, they believe students would be unable to learn and change.

7) Mobile Learning Will Rise Further in 2016: Towards Maturity reports that 47% of organizations has embraced mobile

learning (a.k.a. m-learning), indicating the popularity of this method with learners.

Use of HTML 5 – Unlike Flash, HTML 5 promises a versatile, faster and robust experience to mobile learners. Therefore, you’ll need to make the necessary changes to your mobile learning course to prevent limiting your audience reach.

Integration of Big Data Analytics – Big Data provides educators with the opportunity to understand learner preferences and improve their training strategy. Using app analytics will further allow you to track your mobile traffic, device usage, and even strengths and weaknesses of mobile training program.

Adaptation for Wearable Tech – Wearable tech such as Google Glass and Oculus Rift has become popular due to its affordability and user friendliness. As they make their way to classrooms, you’ll need to make sure that your m-learning course can effectively run on these.

Integration of Geo Location Features – Adding geo-location features gives teachers the chance to provide relevant online training to the global audience. The system detects the learner’s location and delivers the course or online training materials with a choice of native language subtitles and culturally appropriate activities.

8) Education Gamification Will Make Learning More Fun:

Gamification, or the use of game design elements in other contexts aside from games, promises a lot of potential to educators as well as their students. Turning course work into games allows students to develop persistence, attention to detail, and problem-solving.

9) Education May Finally Become Aligned with the Economy:

As education is a key differentiator in developing the workforce, the field is closely related to creating and sustaining economic prosperity. Realizing this, albeit a little late, local and national leaders are pushing to ensure a closer alignment between educational systems and economic development initiatives. The partnerships and interactions between governments, employers, educators, parents and students will allow the collection of data which can create a better understanding of the global workforce.

10) The Demand for New Assessment Methods is on the Rise:

The central interest of all learners is to receive feedback on their performance. However, students can only benefit from feedback if it’s timely, objective, and relevant to them. Unfortunately, end of unit or end of year assessment approaches fail to meet the timeliness criterion whereas generic feedback on a topic or class assignment fails to be relevant.

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