Also called: Instructional Designer (CS)
Designs the lessons, projects, and courses used to teach coding at schools and online platforms.
You design a unit where middle schoolers program a micro:bit robot, test it with real classes, and revise it based on what confused kids.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's; master's in education common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Education, Computer Science.
Growing about average. Steady.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI now drafts lessons, exercises and auto-graded projects at scale, so fewer people are needed to write curricula.
Classes: AP Computer Science Principles, AP English Language, Psychology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-9031.
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