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Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.Mostly human for now
- 02Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.Mostly human for now
- 03Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Enforce discipline and attendance rules.Mostly human for now
- 06Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.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 loss5%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
42%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 44% 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
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.
- Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
- Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
- Enforce discipline and attendance rules.