Perform duties that are instructional in nature or deliver direct services to students or parents. Serve in a position for which a teacher has ultimate responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.
33 of 34 tasks have some AI capability
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Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
AI: Fully automatable - Adaptive tutoring systems and large language models can provide individualized instruction, feedback, practice, and small-group facilitation across many subjects.
Observe students' performance, and record relevant data to assess progress.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can automatically observe (via digital interactions or sensors), record, and analyze performance data to assess progress at scale.
Present subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, or supervised role-playing methods.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate and deliver lectures, facilitate discussions, and run supervised role-play scenarios under teacher guidance with high fidelity.
Prepare lesson outlines and plans in assigned subject areas and submit outlines to teachers for review.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate high-quality lesson outlines and plans in assigned subject areas and can submit them via LMS or email, enabling full automation of the task.
Grade homework and tests, and compute and record results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.
AI: Fully automatable - Automated grading systems already can accurately score answer-sheet or electronic-device-based assessments and compute/record results, so this is fully automatable.
Take class attendance and maintain attendance records.
AI: Fully automatable - Attendance-taking and record maintenance can be fully automated with digital sign-ins, RFID/camera systems, or LMS integration to reliably record and store attendance data.
Type, file, and duplicate materials.
AI: Fully automatable - Typing, digitizing, organizing, and duplicating documents can be fully automated with current software, OCR, and office machines integrated into document workflows.
Plan, prepare, and develop various teaching aids, such as bibliographies, charts, and graphs.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate bibliographies, design charts and graphs, and produce a wide range of teaching aids quickly and accurately, making this task fully automatable.
Teach social skills to students.
AI: Partial - AI can model, simulate, and coach basic social skills through interactive practice and feedback, but complex social therapy and in‑person facilitation for diverse learners remain beyond full automation.
Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
AI: Partial - AI can support supervision via cameras, location tracking, and alerts but cannot reliably provide physical presence or intervene in-person for safety and discipline.
Provide extra assistance to students with special needs.
AI: Partial - AI can deliver personalized supports, accommodations, and learning aids for many students with special needs, but comprehensive assistance—especially physical, medical, or highly individualized interventions—still requires human specialists.
Carry out therapeutic regimens, such as behavior modification and personal development programs, under the supervision of special education instructors, psychologists, or speech-language pathologists.
AI: Partial - AI tools can monitor behavior, deliver program content, and support clinicians, but carrying out therapeutic regimens with vulnerable students under supervision requires human presence and clinical discretion.
Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
AI: Partial - AI can detect policy violations and recommend or automate notifications, but final enforcement and judgment typically require human authority and contextual discretion.
Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
AI: Partial - AI can instruct and monitor equipment use via sensors and tutorials but cannot physically intervene to prevent injuries or damage.
Discuss assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts.
AI: Partial - AI can synthesize plans, draft coordination messages, and schedule meetings, but cannot fully replace human-to-human collaborative discussion and judgment.
Assist in bus loading and unloading.
AI: Partial - Sensors, cameras, and automated alerts can assist supervision during loading/unloading, but the physical safety oversight and hands-on assistance of children are not fully automatable.
Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development.
AI: Partial - AI can design and organize games and provide digital facilitation, but reliable in-person supervision for safety and social dynamics remains a human role.
Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
AI: Partial - Assistive technology configuration and digital support can be automated, however providing physical assistance and safe access to facilities for disabled students requires human caregivers or aides.
Participate in teacher-parent conferences regarding students' progress or problems.
AI: Partial - AI can produce reports, talking points, and even present data, but the empathic, contextual, and relational aspects of parent–teacher conferences need human involvement.
Collect money from students for school-related projects.
AI: Partial - AI can facilitate digital payments, invoicing, and reminders but cannot physically collect cash or handle in-person transactions, so the task is partially automatable.
Distribute tests and homework assignments and collect them when they are completed.
AI: Partial - AI can fully automate digital distribution and collection of assignments but cannot universally handle physical distribution and retrieval in all classroom contexts.
Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare and control digital audio-visual content and provide setup guidance remotely, but cannot always perform hands-on physical equipment handling in classrooms, so this is partial.
Distribute teaching materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students.
AI: Partial - AI can manage inventories, track materials, and coordinate distribution logistics but cannot typically perform the physical handing out of textbooks and supplies without robotic systems.
Clean classrooms.
AI: Partial - Robotic cleaners and automation can handle routine floor/surface cleaning but cannot reliably perform the wide range of nuanced, safe, and context-sensitive cleaning tasks a human would in a classroom.
Maintain computers in classrooms and laboratories and assist students with hardware and software use.
AI: Partial - AI can provide diagnostics, remote troubleshooting, and software assistance, but physical hardware maintenance and repairs require human intervention, making this partially automatable.
Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.
AI: Partial - AI can design labels and suggest display layouts tailored to developmental levels, but physically arranging displays and applying nuanced perceptual/eye-level judgment still requires human intervention.
Operate and maintain audio-visual equipment.
AI: Partial - AI can operate AV systems remotely and run diagnostics, but routine physical maintenance and repairs of audio-visual equipment still require human technicians, so partial automation is possible.
Prepare lesson materials, bulletin board displays, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations.
AI: Partial - Generating lesson materials, templates, and demonstration scripts is highly automatable, but physically assembling exhibits and preparing equipment often needs human setup and oversight.
Requisition and stock teaching materials and supplies.
AI: Partial - Inventory, requisition, and ordering workflows can be fully automated, yet the physical stocking and handling of supplies in classrooms typically require human labor.
Monitor classroom viewing of live or recorded courses transmitted by communication satellites.
AI: Partial - AI can monitor transmission quality, flag connectivity or playback issues, and even detect viewer presence, but nuanced supervision of student engagement and pedagogical judgement remains limited, so it's partially automatable.
Conduct demonstrations to teach skills, such as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.
AI: Partial - AI can deliver video or virtual demonstrations and guided instructions, but cannot perform in-person physical demonstrations for skills like sports or dance, so the task is only partially automatable.
Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
AI: Partial - AI can attend virtually, transcribe, and summarize meetings, but serving on committees and contributing sensitive judgment, consensus-building, and responsibility remains a human role.
Assist librarians in school libraries.
AI: Partial - AI can provide digital assistance—catalog searches, recommendations, metadata work and virtual patron support—but cannot perform physical tasks like shelving or supervise students in person.
Laminate teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.
AI: Not automatable - Lamination is a manual, physical task requiring handling of materials and equipment that AI cannot perform remotely or autonomously in typical school settings as of 2025.