Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate these objectives to students.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably generate clear lesson, unit, and project objectives aligned with standards and produce student‑facing communications to convey those objectives.

Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can create course objectives and detailed outlines aligned to state and school curriculum guidelines and adapt them to specified constraints with high fidelity.

Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.

AI: Fully automatable - Using computers and audiovisual aids to supplement presentations is largely automatable—AI can create, control, and integrate digital media and instructional technologies with minimal human intervention.

Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate curriculum-aligned lesson plans, materials, and written documentation on demand, effectively automating class preparation and evidence of preparation for supervisors.

Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems in 2025 can reliably generate, populate, and format required student and activity reports from data and produce polished drafts suitable for administrative use with minimal human editing.

Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.

AI: Partial - AI tutoring and personalized learning systems can encourage exploration and persistence through tailored tasks and feedback, but they cannot fully replicate the relational, motivational role of a teacher in preparing students for later grades.

Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.

AI: Partial - AI can produce differentiated lesson materials and adaptive instructional plans to meet diverse needs, but implementing them effectively in a live classroom and handling complex social or learning‑disabled cases requires human judgment.

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.

AI: Partial - AI can help design rules, routines, and monitoring systems and provide behavior‑management strategies, but enforcing rules and maintaining order in person remains a human responsibility.

Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.

AI: Partial - AI can generate and administer tests and automatically grade many objective and even some subjective responses, but it cannot fully replicate the nuanced human judgment and contextual evaluation teachers apply to complex assignments and atypical student work.

Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.

AI: Partial - AI can design and produce lesson materials and give setup instructions, but it cannot physically arrange classroom spaces or handle on-site, real-world preparations without human action.

Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.

AI: Partial - AI can synthesize data, draft communications, and suggest interventions, but it lacks the human empathy, legal/ethical judgment, and relationship-building required to fully conduct sensitive conferences with parents and colleagues.

Maintain accurate, complete, and correct student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.

AI: Partial - Routine recordkeeping, validation, and formatting can be automated, yet legal compliance, discretionary judgments, and final accountability typically require human oversight and decision-making.

Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as English, mathematics, or social studies.

AI: Partial - AI can deliver lectures, simulations, and moderate discussions, but it cannot fully substitute for a human teacher's real-time adaptive pedagogy, classroom management, and responsiveness to subtle student cues.

Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor performance metrics and flag behavioral or health signals, but comprehensive evaluation of social development and physical health requires human judgment, context, and confidentiality safeguards.

Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.

AI: Partial - AI can plan balanced instructional activities and provide scripts or interactive content, but conducting and dynamically facilitating those activities in a live classroom setting remains a human-centered task.

Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.

AI: Partial - AI can provide guidance, resources, and preliminary counseling support, yet effective personal counseling and long-term guidance depend on human empathy, trust, and professional responsibility.

Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.

AI: Partial - AI can detect policy violations and assist with monitoring and reporting, but enforcing policies involves judgment, disciplinary discretion, and human authority that cannot be fully automated.

Assign lessons and correct homework.

AI: Partial - AI can generate assignments and auto-grade many objective and rubric-based homework tasks but struggles with nuanced feedback and professional judgment on subjective student work.

Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.

AI: Partial - AI can synthesize student data, produce summaries, and propose action plans but cannot replace human-led, interpersonal decision-making, confidentiality management, and responsibility in professional meetings.

Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of middle school programs.

AI: Partial - AI can draft curricula, analyze outcomes, and suggest revisions, but cannot fully manage consensus-building, local policy interpretation, and the contextual negotiation required among staff and administrators.

Assist students who need extra help, such as by tutoring and preparing and implementing remedial programs.

AI: Partial - AI tutoring systems can deliver adaptive remediation and individualized practice effectively, yet they lack the human empathy, motivational support, and in-person intervention some struggling students require.

Meet or correspond with parents or guardians to discuss children's progress and to determine priorities and resource needs.

AI: Partial - AI can draft progress reports and suggested talking points and facilitate asynchronous correspondence, but it cannot fully substitute for sensitive, relationship-based conversations and collaborative decision-making with parents or guardians.

Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.

AI: Partial - AI can propose lesson plans and schedules that follow approved curricula and optimize sequencing, but cannot fully participate in the interpersonal planning, negotiation, and real-time adjustments made during staff conferences.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

AI: Partial - AI can deliver, curate, and summarize professional learning content and simulate training, but attending conferences, hands-on workshops, and experiential networking for professional competence still require human participation.

Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage.

AI: Partial - AI can provide instruction, demonstrations, and remote monitoring/alerts about equipment use, but cannot physically supervise, intervene to prevent injury, or assume legal responsibility for student safety in situ.

Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine student strengths and areas of need.

AI: Partial - AI can administer and proctor tests remotely and analyze/interpret standardized scores to identify strengths and needs, but cannot fully replace in-person accommodations, ethical judgment, or final professional decisions.

Perform administrative duties, such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.

AI: Partial - AI can automate scheduling, monitoring (camera/alert systems), and library catalog tasks, but cannot fully perform the on‑site physical supervision and hands‑on duties involved in halls, cafeterias, or bus loading.

Attend staff meetings and serve on staff committees, as required.

AI: Partial - AI can join meetings virtually, transcribe, summarize, and support committee work, but cannot fully replace human participation, decision‑making, relationship building, and responsibility on staff committees.

Organize and label materials and display students' work.

AI: Partial - AI can plan organization, create labels, and design display layouts, and even drive print jobs, but physical arrangement and tactile handling of materials and student work still require human action.

Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from such activities.

AI: Partial - AI can plan logistics, risk assessments, lesson integration, and instructional materials for projects and trips, but cannot reliably provide on‑site supervision or manage emergent in-person student needs alone.

Coordinate and supervise extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.

AI: Partial - AI can coordinate schedules, communications, and logistics for extracurriculars and support programming, yet cannot fully substitute for in-person supervision, mentorship, and real‑time student management.

Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.

AI: Partial - AI can generate evaluation templates, assign tasks, and analyze performance data for assistants and volunteers, yet cannot fully replace human supervision, mentorship, and onsite assessment.

Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.

AI: Partial - AI can design games, track participation, and provide facilitation guidance, but organizing and especially supervising physical recreational activities to ensure safety and social development still requires human presence.

Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

AI: Partial - AI can handle selection, automated ordering, inventory tracking, and reorder triggers, but physical storage, issuing, and hands‑on logistics typically still need human or robotic infrastructure not universally available.

Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

AI: Not automatable - Providing physical assistance, handing assistive devices in person, and aiding access to facilities requires human presence, legal responsibility, and physical care that AI cannot perform, though it can recommend or control certain assistive technologies.