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Job outlook for instructional technology resource teachers in the United States
Are instructional technology resource teacher jobs in demand?
Instructional technology resource teacher job and salary trends over time
Instructional technology resource teacher jobs over time
Instructional technology resource teacher job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 106 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 109 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 115 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 113 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 113 | 0.00% |
Average instructional technology resource teacher salary over time
Instructional technology resource teacher salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $52,600 | $25.29 | +2.1% |
| 2024 | $51,504 | $24.76 | +2.5% |
| 2023 | $50,261 | $24.16 | +1.9% |
| 2022 | $49,338 | $23.72 | +2.4% |
| 2021 | $48,164 | $23.16 | +1.7% |
Instructional technology resource teacher jobs by state
Most common states for instructional technology resource teachers
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 227 | 33% |
| 2 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 320 | 24% |
| 3 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 251 | 24% |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 1,599 | 23% |
| 5 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 1,366 | 23% |
| 6 | Vermont | 623,657 | 143 | 23% |
| 7 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 133 | 23% |
| 8 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 1,238 | 22% |
| 9 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 419 | 22% |
| 10 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 1,811 | 21% |
| 11 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 1,178 | 21% |
| 12 | Delaware | 961,939 | 206 | 21% |
| 13 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 2,540 | 20% |
| 14 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 1,760 | 20% |
| 15 | New Mexico | 2,088,070 | 409 | 20% |
| 16 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 209 | 20% |
| 17 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 780 | 19% |
| 18 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 576 | 18% |
| 19 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 1,251 | 17% |
| 20 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 512 | 17% |
Instructional Technology Resource Teacher job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of instructional technology resource teacher experts
Oklahoma State University
University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
University of Michigan Dearborn
Longwood University
Saint Mary's College of California
Centenary University
University of Wyoming
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UNC Charlotte
Utah State University
Lehigh University
University of Mary Washington
Gallaudet University
Park University
Orchard Farm High School
Calvin University
What will help Instructional Technology Resource Teachers increase their earning potential?
Dr. Sarah Donovan: The field of education needs to continue to professionalize like healthcare fields. Teachers from accredited programs with certification will earn a higher salary.
Teachers are in high demand in many states, and some school districts are offering incentives. Many of these incentives require teachers to make a commitment to the school and community for a number of years.
Graduate programs are now available online and in person. Graduate degrees in education need not be completed quickly nor are they necessarily about 'finishing.' I think there is a lot to gain from taking one class per semester or one graduate class each summer to nurture ongoing collaboration with education faculty and higher education communities. The graduate peers and faculty become another network of support, and each course can contribute to salary bumps. Also, some school districts will pay or supplement graduate courses as ongoing professional development.
What Instructional Technology Resource Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Maritere Cardona Matos Ed.D.: Being able to collaborate is essential in the academia as well as in the workplace. Educators need to cultivate students' abilities to work effectively in teams and communicate their ideas clearly both orally and in writing. Educators also need to develop students' awareness of what is happening around the world to help them develop empathy and values. We live in a world that is in constant movement, so students need to be able to adapt and manage time and stress.
Christopher Burke PhD
Professor Science EducationUniversity of Michigan Dearborn
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs
What Instructional Technology Resource Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Christopher Burke PhD: The ability to connect with and engage diverse students.
The ability to contextualize learning across disciplines.
The ability to work collaboratively and to help your students learn to work collaboratively.
What will help Instructional Technology Resource Teachers increase their earning potential?
Christopher Burke PhD: Look for opportunities for leadership in both informal and formal roles.
Understand the contract and know how you move on the salary scale (credits? degrees?).
Know how a district compensates for extra pay/extra duty positions...but don't overwhelm with too many.
Know the condition of the market: Is it a "job seeker's market" or an "employer's hirer's market?" Turnover in positions can be cyclical and is effective by conditions such as economic circumstances. Sometimes one can be "choosier" than at other times based on demand.
Education-teaching and in leadership-is a relatively portable career. But levels of remuneration vary considerably across states and regions-and within states and regions. So...would, you be willing to consider a move? Usually moving to another state requires some work regarding transferability and recognition of credentials held in another state. But as demand increases, barriers to ease of relocation tend to decrease.
Dr. Audrey Church Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Education and Counseling; Professor of School LibrarianshipLongwood University
Education
What general advice would you give to an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher?
Dr. Audrey Church Ph.D.: In the field of education, skills that will become even more important and prevalent are really at, what I would consider, opposite ends of a spectrum: at one end, interpersonal skills--strength and knowledge in the areas of social and emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching; at the other end, technology skills-refining and enhancing information literacy and digital literacy skills.
What Instructional Technology Resource Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Audrey Church Ph.D.: In the field of education, skills that will become even more important and prevalent are really at, what I would consider, opposite ends of a spectrum: at one end, interpersonal skills--strength and knowledge in the areas of social and emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching; at the other end, technology skills-refining and enhancing information literacy and digital literacy skills.
What Instructional Technology Resource Teacher skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Christina O'Connor Ph.D.: Teachers need to have an understanding of trauma-informed practice and incorporate social-emotional learning into the classroom. They also need to understand and be adept with using artificial intelligence as an instructional tool as well as know how to identify when AI is being used to deceive or falsify information. Information literacy is extremely important.
What will help Instructional Technology Resource Teachers increase their earning potential?
Peter Alter Ph.D.: Good classroom and behavior management skills will serve you well. To do that, understanding the big ideas around Applied Behavior Analysis will really help.
Use technology to your best advantage. Depending on your age, you are either a digital native or a digital immigrant but you're going to have to get comfortable with technology because it will only become a bigger part of the education system (e.g. learning management systems, AI, digital communication, etc...).
Dr. Lisa Mastrangel Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Director of CompositionCentenary University
Department is Business, Media, and Writing
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Lisa Mastrangel Ph.D.: Because many of the jobs will be online, technological skills will be vital.
Dr. Andrea Burrows
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Professor, Science Education, School of Teacher EducationUniversity of Wyoming
College of Education
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Andrea Burrows: The definition of technology can be a tricky one; for example, see a newly published article by Ellis et al. (2020) in CITE Journal Science. The authors explore technology perspectives relating to vocational education, instructional technology, computing, and practitioners of science, mathematics, and engineering. In all of these spaces, technology has and continues to be important to education, and in the next five years, it has the potential to dramatically impact the field. It is important for the educational community to understand what technology is and how it is being assessed for effectiveness before making technology decisions and deciding if it has an impact or not.
Tatiana Joseph Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning Program Director, Second Language ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Tatiana Joseph Ph.D.: This is a giant question.
This pandemic has pushed us to use technology in new ways. In the next five years, we will see a teacher population who is highly trained in using new-age technology to enhance learning and build new opportunities because many HAD to learn these new systems in order to teach currently.
Snow days may become a thing of the past, for example, as now we have the platforms and the training to provide remote instruction.
I hope that districts will continue to support teachers in learning and maintaining knowledge of these new systems.
Brad Smith
Director of Teacher Education Advising and LicensureUNC Charlotte
Department of Teacher Education Advising and Licensure
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Brad Smith: Education has been dramatically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps more so than many other fields. Last spring, educators, at all levels, worked to convert their classes to an online format, essentially overnight. We've learned quite a bit since then, and I see technology playing an increasingly important role in education going forward. While education, at most levels, is likely to return to a traditional face-to-face format after the pandemic subsides, this experience has shown that technology can (and in many cases should) be used to improve instructional practice. I expect teacher preparation programs to more heavily incorporate technology training into their curriculums going forward.
Sylvia Read Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for Teacher EducationUtah State University
Department of Education
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Sylvia Read Ph.D.: Teachers have had to become much more fluent with technology to enable their teaching and student learning, and this will carry through and be refined over time. The challenge is how to leverage technology to differentiate learning based on students' needs.
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. William Gaudelli: COVID exposed great rifts in student/community ability to learn via distance and the technology/bandwidth to support it. In the next 5-10 years, in addition to that challenge, we will have an increasing presence of VR, AI, and robotics/robotics in classrooms and through learning systems that may not fundamentally alter learning but will significantly augment it.
Janine Davis Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington
College of Education
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Instructional Technology Resource Teachers?
Janine Davis Ph.D.: For our teacher education graduates, the impact of the pandemic will most likely work in their favor when it comes to finding jobs-the pandemic has led to many retirements, which will mean that we will need even more teachers to fill those empty positions. At the same time, the advent of increased virtual learning means that it will no longer be an option that teachers know and use technology, including teaching online and using learning management and data analysis systems-those skills will almost certainly be a non-negotiable for future teaching positions. Finally, I think that this event has highlighted the importance of working as part of a team of teachers and other school leaders.
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Kristen Harmon Ph.D.: What does he mean by technology? Gaming, cars, artificial intelligence, signing gloves, real captioning, social media?
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Suzanne Tiemann: The generations we are educating are growing up with technology all around them. They expect their teachers to be current and innovative, and we are answering back. The incredible work that teachers have done in the last few months is commendable and impressive. The teachers are modeling how to adapt, be flexible, and meet the learner where they are. Technology in the classroom will continue to grow. As teachers, we will do the same as we strive for excellence in education.
Dr. Greg Jones
High School PrincipalOrchard Farm High School
What technology do you think will become more important and prevalent for Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 3-5 years?
Dr. Greg Jones: Technology is ever-changing and expanding. I do not see this trend changing. Technical skills will remain important, but there has to be a focus on creativity, imagination, and problem-solving. In schools, we are working to prepare our students for their next steps in life and the workforce. We cannot prepare them for an ever-evolving workforce if we do not focus on these skills that will equip them with what they need to prosper and make our community a beautiful place to live and work.
How do you envision technology impacting Instructional Technology Resource Teachers in the next 5 years?
Dr. Mark Williams Ph.D.: Classics was the first field in the humanities to be entirely digitized, mainly thanks to the efforts of people like David Packard (yes, he's the son of the Packard of Hewlett and Packard). I suspect that the digital humanities will become more important, and even necessary, in an online learning environment, and classics, as a discipline, is well placed to be a part of this change.