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Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Teach one or more subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.Mostly human for now
- 02Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.Mostly human for now
- 06Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate these objectives to students.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Assign lessons and correct homework.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Assist students who need extra help, such as by tutoring and preparing and implementing remedial programs.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.Mostly human for now
- 10Maintain accurate, complete, and correct student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.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 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
35%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 61% 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 40% 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.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.