# educationalRole - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/educationalRole
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:43:19.706Z

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An educationalRole of an EducationalAudience.

### Values expected to be one of these types

`-   [Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")`

### Examples

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<!-- A lesson plan for US second grade teachers. -->
<div>
  <h1>Designing a treasure map</h1>
  <p>Resource type: lesson plan, learning activity</p>
  <p>Target audience: teachers</p>
  <p>Educational level: US Grade 2</p>
  <p>Link to lesson plan: <a href="http://example.org/lessonplan">http://example.org/lessonplan</a></p>
</div>

Example encoded as [Microdata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_\(HTML\)) embedded in HTML.

<!-- A lesson plan for US second grade teachers. -->
<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork">
    <h1 itemprop="name">Designing a treasure map</h1>
    <p>Resource type:
      <span itemprop="learningResourceType">lesson plan</span>,
      <span itemprop="learningResourceType">learning activity</span>
    </p>
    <p>Target audience:
      <span itemprop="audience" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/EducationalAudience">
        <span itemprop="educationalRole">teacher</span></span>s.
    </p>
    <p itemprop="educationalLevel" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/DefinedTerm">
        <span itemprop="inDefinedTermSet">US Grade Levels</span>
        <span itemprop="name">2</span>
        <link itemprop="url" href="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/2" />
    </p>
    <p>Link to lesson plan: <a itemprop="url" href="http://example.org/lessonplan">http://example.org/lessonplan</a></p>
</div>

Example encoded as [RDFa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa) embedded in HTML.

<!-- A list of the issues for a single volume of a given periodical. -->
<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="CreativeWork">
    <h1 property="name">Designing a treasure map</h1>
    <p>Resource type:
    <span property="learningResourceType"> lesson plan</span>,
    <span property="learningResourceType"> learning activity</span>
    </p>
    <p>Target audience:
      <span rel="audience" typeof="EducationalAudience">
        <span property="educationalRole">teacher</span>s
      </span>
    </p>
    <p rel="educationalLevel" typeof="DefinedTerm">
        <span property="inDefinedTermSet">US Grade Levels</span>
        <span property="name">2</span>
        <span rel="url" resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/2"></span>
    </p>
    <p>Link to lesson plan: <a property="url" href="http://example.org/lessonplan">http://example.org/lessonplan</a></p>
</div>

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "CreativeWork",
  "name": "Designing a treasure map",
  "learningResourceType": \[
    "lesson plan",
    "learning activity"
    \],
  "audience": {
    "@type": "EducationalAudience",
    "educationalRole": "teacher"
  },
  "educationalLevel": {
    "@type": "DefinedTerm",
    "inDefinedTermSet": "US Grade Levels",
    "name": "2",
    "url": "http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/2"
  },
  "url": "http://example.org/lessonplan"
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.