This paper discusses some of the roles that teachers play as technology affects the course of education. The contents include: (1) a general discussion of the role of the teacher in relation to the role of technology in education; (2) a discussion of factors affecting the teacher's role, which looks at teacher education and the lack of training provided in the use of educational technology, staff development and how retraining teachers in various aspects of technology can be accomplished, and school district size and how the forming of larger school districts could provide more funds for the use of computers in both instruction and administration; (3) variability of the teacher's role, which discusses the various uses of technological devices in reading instruction; (4) innovative roles of the teacher in current experimental programs, which discusses computerized language experience programs, computerized reading instruction in the secondary school, and teletype-news service systems in reading instruction. (WR)