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Education & Training · Updated Aug 2026

Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
73/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
63/100
High

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.High
75
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.High
75
Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.High
74
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.High
73
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.Medium
70
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Medium
75
Supervise students' fieldwork, internship, and research work.High
74
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.High
75
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.High
73
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.Medium
72
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.High
73
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.Medium
62
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.Medium
75
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.Medium
74
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.Medium
63
Serve as a liaison between the university and other governmental and educational agencies.Medium
75
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.Low
75
Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.Low
75
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.75
  2. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.75
  3. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.75
  4. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.75
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.01
  2. Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.02
  3. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.03
  4. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.04
  5. Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.05
Where else this work leads

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Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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AI risk 61

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency58
Physical dependency24
Adoption pressure49
Labour-market resilience59
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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