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Instructional Coordinators
Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Observe work of teaching staff to evaluate performance and to recommend changes that could strengthen teaching skills.Mostly human for now
- 02Plan and conduct teacher training programs and conferences dealing with new classroom procedures, instructional materials and equipment, and teaching aids.Mostly human for now
- 03Interpret and enforce provisions of state education codes and rules and regulations of state education boards.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Conduct or participate in workshops, committees, and conferences designed to promote the intellectual, social, and physical welfare of students.Mostly human for now
- 05Advise teaching and administrative staff in curriculum development, use of materials and equipment, and implementation of state and federal programs and procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Advise and teach students.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Recommend, order, or authorize purchase of instructional materials, supplies, equipment, and visual aids designed to meet student educational needs and district standards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Update the content of educational programs to ensure that students are being trained with equipment and processes that are technologically current.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Address public audiences to explain program objectives and to elicit support.Mostly human for now
- 10Research, evaluate, and prepare recommendations on curricula, instructional methods, and materials for school systems.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 loss30%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 91% 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.
- Observe work of teaching staff to evaluate performance and to recommend changes that could strengthen teaching skills.
- Plan and conduct teacher training programs and conferences dealing with new classroom procedures, instructional materials and equipment, and teaching aids.
- Conduct or participate in workshops, committees, and conferences designed to promote the intellectual, social, and physical welfare of students.