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Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
Assist a preschool, elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher with instructional duties. Serve in a position for which a teacher has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.Mostly human for now
- 02Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.Mostly human for now
- 04Teach social skills to students.Mostly human for now
- 05Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.Mostly human for now
- 06Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts.Mostly human for now
- 07Present subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, supervised role-playing methods, or by reading aloud.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Clean classrooms.Mostly human for now
- 09Observe students' performance, and record relevant data to assess progress.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.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 loss37%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 55% 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.
- Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
- Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
- Teach social skills to students.