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Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Mostly human for now
- 09Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
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 loss26%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 94% 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.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.