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Self-Enrichment Teachers
Teach or instruct individuals or groups for the primary purpose of self-enrichment or recreation, rather than for an occupational objective, educational attainment, competition, or fitness.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.Mostly human for now
- 02Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Prepare students for further development by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.Mostly human for now
- 04Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.Mostly human for now
- 05Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by administrative policy.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Monitor students' performance to make suggestions for improvement and to ensure that they satisfy course standards, training requirements, and objectives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Prepare and administer written, oral, and performance tests, and issue grades in accordance with performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Prepare instructional program objectives, outlines, and lesson plans.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Confer with other teachers and professionals to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning and development.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 loss7%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
36%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 69% 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.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
- Prepare students for further development by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.