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Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress and make suggestions for improvement.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.Mostly human for now
- 03Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs, abilities, and interests.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Prepare students for further education by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.Mostly human for now
- 06Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.Mostly human for now
- 07Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.Mostly human for now
- 08Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Assign and grade class work and homework.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws or administrative policies.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
40%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 59% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 39% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.
- Prepare students for further education by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.