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Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach vocational courses intended to provide occupational training below the baccalaureate level in subjects such as construction, mechanics/repair, manufacturing, transportation, or cosmetology, primarily to students who have graduated from or left high school. Teaching takes place in public or private schools whose primary business is academic or vocational education.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Present lectures and conduct discussions to increase students' knowledge and competence using visual aids, such as graphs, charts, videotapes, and slides.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 04Administer oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare reports and maintain records, such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Develop curricula and plan course content and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Determine training needs of students or workers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Supervise independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work, or other training.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Integrate academic and vocational curricula so that students can obtain a variety of skills.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss16%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
49%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 64% 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 32% 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.
- Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment.