What is the differance between teachers and educators?

Question

What is the differance between teachers and educators?

Answer 1

An educator is any credentialed (certificated) professional who works in education, such as principals, vice principals, etc and including teachers. So all teachers are educators but not all educators are teachers.

Answer 2

teacher: make the minds rich

educator: makes his pocket rich

Answer 3

IN my opinion an educator is more of a bureaucrat then teacher Someone in Administration............A teacher is one who could be both.......Teach & then move on to the Admin position

Answer 4

In my opinion a teacher is a person who has gained a teaching qualification and uses it to teach. An educator on the other hand is someone who teaches children without having the specific qualification.

Everyone educates, from Mam teaching children at home, to the support staff in schools.

This is just my opinion as I don't know if there is a real difference.

Answer 5

same

Answer 6

I thought they were used interchangeably; the way I see it, teachers are lifelong educators.  

Once a teacher, always a teacher; also, it's not just the content they teach, they live their lives as an example for others to learn from (or at least they used to)--well, at least a TRUE teacher does.

Answer 7

Really, it is just a matter of semantics.  Unlike others here, I don't see that the term "educator" includes administrators, because the definition is that an educator is one who educates (i.e., causes learning to happen).  An administrator may be responsible for the conditions which make this possible, but they don't cause the learning itself to take place (other than indirectly, by hiring teachers).

A teacher is one who teaches.  In other words, the focus is more on the side of what the teacher does, rather than on how the student responds.  In that sense, it is kind of an outmoded term, but it is commonly used by those who educate.