Classroom Trends: Teachers as Buyers of Instructional Materials and Users of Technology

Classroom Trends: Teachers as Buyers of Instructional Materials and Users of Technology is the first of four publications that will make up the State of the K-12 Market Report 2016 series. It is based on wide-scale survey findings from more than 1,300 teachers and key trends affecting classrooms today. Actionable recommendations for publishers and other providers of education-related products and services are presented as well.

Topics addressed in the report include:

• Types of materials teachers buy for their classrooms and where they do their shopping
• Factors that play a role in deciding what to purchase
• Role of the teacher in school and district selection of a range of educational products
• How teachers find—and create their own— instructional materials they use in their classes.
• Digital instructional materials—what features teachers value, what roadblocks they have encountered
• Available classroom technologies
• Challenges teachers face of using apps
• Overall adequacy of instructional technology in schools