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Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.Mostly human for now
- 02Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.Mostly human for now
- 03Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.Mostly human for now
- 04Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.Mostly human for now
- 05Demonstrate activities to children.Mostly human for now
- 06Read books to entire classes or to small groups.Mostly human for now
- 07Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or special academic interests.Mostly human for now
- 08Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.Mostly human for now
- 09Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.Mostly human for now
- 10Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
23%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 67% 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 47% 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.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.