Tutors

Provide feedback to students using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.

AI: Fully automatable - AI tutors can provide constructive feedback and apply positive reinforcement techniques at scale to encourage and motivate many students effectively in routine tutoring scenarios.

Teach students study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking strategies.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully teach study skills, note-taking, and test-taking strategies by providing explanations, modeling techniques, practice prompts, and personalized feedback.

Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully review class material by discussing text, solving problems step-by-step, and providing targeted feedback on worksheets or assignments when given the content digitally.

Schedule tutoring appointments with students or their parents.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully schedule tutoring appointments by integrating with calendars, sending invitations and reminders, and handling rescheduling and basic communication automatically.

Develop teaching or training materials, such as handouts, study materials, or quizzes.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully develop teaching and training materials—handouts, study guides, and quizzes—rapidly and adaptively based on curriculum and learner data.

Prepare lesson plans or learning modules for tutoring sessions according to students' needs and goals.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems in 2025 can generate personalized lesson plans and modules from student data and curricula, enabling full automation of this task.

Research or recommend textbooks, software, equipment, or other learning materials to complement tutoring.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can rapidly research and recommend up-to-date textbooks, software, and learning materials tailored to a student's needs, effectively automating this task.

Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests.

AI: Partial - AI can provide individualized instruction, practice, and feedback for individuals or small groups but struggles with in-person group dynamics, hands-on support, and some high-touch personalization aspects.

Assess students' progress throughout tutoring sessions.

AI: Partial - AI can continuously assess cognitive progress via quizzes, response analysis, and learning analytics but may miss nuanced affective, contextual, or motivational indicators without human interpretation.

Monitor student performance or assist students in academic environments, such as classrooms, laboratories, or computing centers.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor digital performance and assist in computing centers or LMS environments but cannot fully supervise or assist in physical classrooms or labs without sensors and human presence.

Organize tutoring environment to promote productivity and learning.

AI: Partial - AI can design, recommend, and generate plans or checklists to organize a tutoring environment but cannot physically arrange spaces or enforce environmental changes itself.

Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new tutoring techniques.

AI: Partial - AI can generate, deliver, and simulate training content and roleplays for tutor development but cannot fully replicate collaborative, experiential human-led professional development and reflective practice.

Maintain records of students' assessment results, progress, feedback, or school performance, ensuring confidentiality of all records.

AI: Partial - AI can automate record-keeping, tracking, and access controls, but ensuring legal compliance and the confidentiality of records requires human governance, secure infrastructure, and policy oversight.

Communicate students' progress to students, parents or teachers in written progress reports, in person, by phone, or by email.

AI: Partial - AI can generate written and email progress reports and scripted communications, but delivering sensitive feedback and handling live conversations usually needs human involvement.

Collaborate with students, parents, teachers, school administrators, or counselors to determine student needs, develop tutoring plans, or assess student progress.

AI: Partial - While AI can synthesize information and draft plans or messages, real-world collaboration and judgement with students, parents, and school staff still require human facilitation.

Identify, develop, or implement intervention strategies, tutoring plans, or individualized education plans (IEPs) for students.

AI: Partial - AI can identify and draft intervention strategies or tutoring plans and support IEP document drafting, but legal responsibility, individualized judgement, and implementation require human professionals.

Prepare and facilitate tutoring workshops, collaborative projects, or academic support sessions for small groups of students.

AI: Partial - AI can create materials and run virtual workshops, but facilitating in-person small-group dynamics and making real-time pedagogical adjustments typically requires a human facilitator.

Administer, proctor, or score academic or diagnostic assessments.

AI: Partial - AI can automatically score many assessments and provide online proctoring tools, but fully reliable proctoring and high-stakes scoring still require human oversight and intervention.

Travel to students' homes, libraries, or schools to conduct tutoring sessions.

AI: Not automatable - AI cannot physically travel to students' homes, libraries, or schools to conduct in-person tutoring sessions.