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Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Teach academic and social skills to students at the elementary school level.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Instruct students individually and in groups, using teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.Mostly human for now
- 02Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students.Mostly human for now
- 03Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or with special academic interests.Mostly human for now
- 04Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Plan 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
- 06Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.Mostly human for now
- 07Read books to entire classes or small groups.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.Mostly human for now
- 10Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.Mostly human for now
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 loss10%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
31%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 42% 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.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, using teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or with special academic interests.