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Education & Training · Updated Aug 2026

Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
69/100
High

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

Replacement Risk
58/100
Moderate

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
Confidence81/100
Task coverage83%

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
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.High
74
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.High
67
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.High
69
Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.High
73
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as anatomy, therapeutic recreation, and conditioning theory.High
59
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department heads.Medium
75
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.High
66
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.High
73
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.High
74
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.High
69
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.Medium
74
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.High
60
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.Medium
68
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.Medium
72
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.Medium
60
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.Medium
74
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. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department heads.75
  2. Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.75
  3. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.74
  4. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.74
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. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.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 heads.03
  4. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.04
  5. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

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

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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 dependency60
Physical dependency31
Adoption pressure51
Labour-market resilience63
Methodology & sources

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

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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