Will self-enrichment teachers be replaced by AI?
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Self-enrichment teachers score 43 of 100 for AI exposure. The largest share of their task time, 45%, is work AI speeds up while they stay in charge. AI can take over 10% outright, and 45% stays with people.
- 10% AI can do it
- 45% AI helps
- 45% Needs a person
Moderate exposure
Higher than 58% of the 923 occupations we scored.
Task by task
We graded 30 tasks, listed here from most to least exposed. AI can do 3 of them today, speeds up 13 and leaves 14 to people.
| Task | AI exposure |
|---|---|
| Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by administrative policy. Record keeping is structured digital data entry and updating. | 75% AI can do it |
| Write instructional articles on designated subjects. Drafting instructional articles is text work; person reviews it. | 72% AI can do it |
| Prepare instructional program objectives, outlines, and lesson plans. AI drafts objectives, outlines and lesson plans; teacher reviews. | 70% AI can do it |
| Review instructional content, methods, and student evaluations to assess strengths and weaknesses, and to develop recommendations for course revision, development, or elimination. AI can analyse content and evaluations; teacher decides revisions. | 60% AI helps |
| Assign and grade class work and homework. AI can grade written homework; hands-on work needs teacher review. | 58% AI helps |
| Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. AI can draft adapted materials; teacher judges student fit. | 55% AI helps |
| Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students. AI can draft clear objectives; teacher sets and communicates them. | 55% AI helps |
| Schedule class times to ensure maximum attendance. Scheduling software can optimise class times; teacher approves. | 55% AI helps |
| Participate in publicity planning and student recruitment. AI can draft publicity copy and outreach; people run recruitment. | 55% AI helps |
| Prepare and administer written, oral, and performance tests, and issue grades in accordance with performance. AI can draft and score written tests; performance tests need a person. | 50% AI helps |
Show the other 20 tasks
| Task | AI exposure |
|---|---|
| Select, order, and issue books, materials, and supplies for courses or projects. Software can handle ordering and tracking; physical issue stays manual. | 50% AI helps |
| Monitor students' performance to make suggestions for improvement and to ensure that they satisfy course standards, training requirements, and objectives. AI can review submitted work; teacher observes and advises. | 40% AI helps |
| Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations. AI can build slides and visuals; operating equipment stays manual. | 40% AI helps |
| 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 can help plan the program; running it stays with the teacher. | 35% AI helps |
| Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help. AI can plan remedial material; teacher delivers the help. | 35% AI helps |
| Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Live teaching in person; AI can supply lecture content only. | 20% AI helps |
| Confer with other teachers and professionals to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning and development. Planning with colleagues is mostly live conversation and coordination. | 20% Needs a person |
| Observe and evaluate the performance of other instructors. Evaluating peers needs live observation and professional judgement. | 20% Needs a person |
| Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers, contests, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities. Field trips and guest visits need on-site supervision and presence. | 18% Needs a person |
| Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics. Reading individual students needs live observation and judgement. | 15% Needs a person |
| Meet with other instructors to discuss individual students and their progress. Discussing students with colleagues is live, judgement-heavy talk. | 15% Needs a person |
| Prepare students for further development by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks. Encouraging perseverance relies on personal rapport and presence. | 12% Needs a person |
| Conduct classes, workshops, and demonstrations, and provide individual instruction to teach topics and skills, such as cooking, dancing, writing, physical fitness, photography, personal finance, and flying. Hands-on demonstrations in cooking, dance or flying need physical skill. | 12% Needs a person |
| Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine their priorities for their children. Parent meetings are live, relationship-based conversations. | 12% Needs a person |
| Enforce policies and rules governing students. Enforcing rules is live interpersonal authority in the room. | 10% Needs a person |
| Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required. Staff meetings and committee service are live, in-person participation. | 10% Needs a person |
| Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities. Setting up physical rooms and materials requires being on site. | 8% Needs a person |
| Attend professional meetings, conferences, and workshops to maintain and improve professional competence. Attending conferences and workshops requires physical presence. | 8% Needs a person |
| Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and social development. Supervising physical games and recreation requires presence on site. | 8% Needs a person |
| Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage. Supervising equipment use for safety is physical and in person. | 5% Needs a person |
How self-enrichment teachers compare
All occupations (923)
Educational instruction and library (62)
Pay and outlook in the US
- Median pay
- $46,800 a year, May 2025
- People employed
- 332,110 in the US, May 2025
- Projected change in jobs
- +3.5% from 2024 to 2034
Skills to build
- Draft and review lesson plans in Microsoft Word
- Keep student records and attendance current in Microsoft Excel
- Build class handouts and slides in Microsoft PowerPoint
- Prepare printable course materials as PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
- Supervise equipment use and safety in the room
- Run recreation sessions and group activities on site
Safer roles nearby
5 related occupations with lower scores.
Questions about self-enrichment teachers and AI
Will AI replace self-enrichment teachers?
Partly. About 3 in 10 working hours go to tasks AI can already do, mostly record keeping and lesson plan drafting. What stays with people is in-room work like supervising equipment, enforcing rules and running recreation on site.
Which tasks are AI taking over for self-enrichment teachers?
Record keeping and lesson drafting are the most exposed. Maintaining student records scores 75 on exposure and is structured data entry in Microsoft Excel, so software handles most of it. Lesson plans and objectives score 70, since AI drafts outlines that the teacher then reviews and edits.
Which tasks stay human for self-enrichment teachers?
Equipment supervision, classroom setup and recreation stay human, scoring 5 to 8 on exposure. Supervising students in the use of equipment to prevent injury scores 5 because it needs a person on site. Organising games and activities scores 8 because physical supervision happens in the room.
How can self-enrichment teachers stay valuable with AI?
Spend the hours AI frees on in-room work. Review AI-drafted lesson plans in Microsoft Word against what students actually did, then adapt them. Keep student records accurate in Excel and check them against attendance. Run hands-on sessions and enforce safety rules in person.
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