WHAT DOES AN EDUCATIONAL DO?
Published: Jun 5, 2025 - The Educational Professional designs and implements innovative instructional strategies to enhance student learning and engagement. This role involves evaluating educational programs using data-driven methodologies to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with academic standards. This position also collaborates with faculty and stakeholders to develop curriculum and foster a culture of academic excellence.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Educational
1. Educational Assistant Duties and Roles
- Inclusive Teaching: Work with students with learning needs in an inclusive classroom setting, as well as on an individual or small group basis
- Academic Support: Support students in a variety of subject areas with planning, organization, time management, and study skills
- IEP Implementation: Support IEP recommendations, review strategies, and document student progress
- Resource Preparation: Prepare additional resources and materials to support students with learning differences
- Teacher Collaboration: Work with classroom teachers to help them understand the needs of students
- Medical Monitoring: Support and monitor students with medical conditions as scheduled throughout each day
- Classroom Management: Develop a learning environment that builds positive relationships and fosters an ethic of care
- Instructional Design: Identify and select instructional resources and methods to meet students' varying needs
- EdTech Integration: Use relevant technology to enhance instruction and learning
- Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and complete records of students' progress for teaching, learning, and reporting
- Meeting Participation: Participate in faculty and parent meetings and special events
- Professional Communication: Model respectful and timely communication with students, colleagues, and parents
- Continuous Learning: Attend professional development workshops
- Values Alignment: Endorse the school’s mission and values
2. Educational Consultant Job Summary
- Program Demonstration: Demonstrate various educational programs, enrolment processes, and provide information about different institutions.
- Student Advising: Access and evaluate information related to students and their choices to help them make the right decisions for their higher studies and career goals
- Academic Planning: Help students develop and design their educational programs by assisting with various learning aspects for a positive outcome.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate and coordinate with parents, teachers, and students to offer ongoing support, advice, and assistance in implementing functional processes and their improvement.
- Event Organization: Organize various workshops, meetings, conferences, and committees to promote and deliver student welfare programs.
- Problem Resolution: Discuss and work on various issues to solve their problems within official guidelines and regulations.
- Curriculum Assessment: Assess various educational policies, standards, measures, and guidelines to update the current curriculum
- Program Research: Undertake thorough research about various educational programs and institutions to provide recommendations to the students.
- International Consultation: Offer consultation to international students and help them understand various educational programs, professional programs, admission procedures, enrollment processes, and institutions as per their requirements.
- Visa Assistance: Help international students with immigration processes after successful enrolment in a program for the visa application and approval process.
- Record Management: Maintain and manage documentation, records, reports, and success stories for future reference.
3. Education Director Roles and Details
- Program Oversight: Oversee the quality and success of all aspects of education programming, including operations management of staff, volunteers, and interns, and stakeholder relationships
- Program Implementation: Implement effective programming to meet community and funder standards, including soliciting student and parent feedback, defining KPIs, creating program measurement tools, managing data collection, and assisting in internal and external reporting
- Strategic Planning: Develop strategic long-term program expansion goals and budgets with the Director of Operations and Executive Director
- Operations Management: Oversee daily operations that support and implement the current program objectives
- Staff Supervision: Supervise the hiring, training, and coaching of program staff in various tasks and general staff development
- Capacity Assessment: Assess and manage programmatic capacity, assess the risks and rewards associated with departmental changes
- Budget Management: Prepare and maintain department budgets and oversee programmatic spending in Education programming
- Community Engagement: Attend community events to represent education programs and the organization
- Partnership Development: Maintain and cultivate program partnerships with school sites and other nonprofits, and also identify future partners
- Fundraising Support: Support fundraising strategies and events when requested by the Executive Director and Development Director
- Volunteer Coordination: Manage intern and volunteer programs for the department in conjunction with the Volunteer Coordinator
4. Sustainability Educational Program Manager General Responsibilities
- Community Networking: Network and work with agricultural and voyaging communities.
- Institutional Collaboration: Network with other sustainability centers.
- Staff Management: Hire and train, and approve student employee work hours.
- Resource Scheduling: Schedule the use of the Center’s resources.
- Income Processing: Develop invoicing and other processes dealing with income generation from farm and/or other projects.
- Budget Reporting: Prepare an annual budget report with the director for the Board’s and line VP’s review.
- Program Promotion: Promote the Center’s programs via various platforms and media.
- Sustainability Training: Implement and maintain internal sustainability training and programming.
- Material Development: Create educational and training materials.
- Goal Tracking: Assist in defining sustainability goals and track performance metrics to assess program effectiveness.
5. Educational Quality Specialist Overview
- Curriculum Coaching: Provide virtual and on-site guidance, training, and coaching to the field regarding quality curriculum implementation.
- Instructional Support: Provide virtual and on-site guidance, training, and coaching to the field regarding instructional strategies aligned with curriculum methodology.
- Coach Development: Work directly with program coaches offering an orientation to the role, and regular support and training, including scheduled and ad-hoc needs.
- Performance Feedback: Provide feedback to directors and RMs regarding efficacy.
- Assessment Development: Develop and support quality assessment tools and action plans.
- Standards Integration: Integrate external and internal quality expectations.
- Training Material Creation: Contribute to the development of training materials related to curriculum and instruction.
- Tool Contribution: Contribute to the development of child assessment tools and resources.
- Data Monitoring: Monitor and assess child assessment data and curriculum effectiveness.
- Leadership Collaboration: Build relationships with operational leaders, offering support, guidance, and resources.
- Program Support: Provide direct support to centers pursuing or maintaining external quality programs, such as accreditation and QRIS.
- Project Participation: Contribute to or lead additional projects.
6. Enterprise and Educational Technology Specialist Responsibilities
- Technology Integration: Assist faculty to help them learn to use and integrate technology into the classroom (physical or online), design technology-infused curriculum, and implement classroom projects in which technology is well-integrated to enhance instruction and improve student achievement.
- Enterprise Support: Assist staff in the best use of enterprise technologies and help the college best utilize features, enhancements, and technology upgrades.
- Customer Support: Deliver excellent customer support for educational and enterprise technology.
- Faculty Communication: Communicate with faculty on an ongoing basis regarding the availability and use of educational technologies.
- Documentation Development: Develop support documentation for various educational technologies for the campus community.
- LMS Support: Act as the primary support contact for the Learning Management System (Canvas).
- Admin Maintenance: Provide basic administrative maintenance (users, settings, etc.) for educational technologies such as Canvas, Zoom, and Starfish.
- Vendor Liaison: Act as a liaison between staff/faculty and technology vendors to implement, support, and enhance the use of technology on campus.
- Trend Monitoring: Keep abreast of emerging trends in instructional and enterprise technology.
- Systems Collaboration: Work closely with the Systems Administrator and Helpdesk to support educational and administrative software systems.
- System Design: Contribute to system design and implementation decisions for educational and enterprise technologies.
- IT Assistance: Assist the IT department with a variety of tasks, including the development of policies, plans, procedures, and reports, supporting new projects, completing help desk tickets, and other duties.
- On-Call Support: Share on-call responsibility with the IT team.