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Teach life skills

Work activity · O*NET

Teach life skills is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Training and Teaching Others. 26 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Teach life skills
  • Teach daily living skills or behaviors
  • Teach basic living or other adaptive skills to patients or caregivers
  • Teach life skills or strategies to clients or their families

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 94.3% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 26.6% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 79.8% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 82nd pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Nannies 5
Childcare Workers 3
Special Education Teachers, Elementary School 3
Special Education Teachers, Middle School 3
Special Education Teachers, Preschool 3
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 3
Occupational Therapy Assistants 2
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 2
Substitute Teachers, Short-Term 2
Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education 2
Teaching Assistants, Special Education 2
Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors 1
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 1
Farm and Home Management Educators 1
Home Health Aides 1
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 1
Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists 1
Marriage and Family Therapists 1
Mental Health Counselors 1
Occupational Therapy Aides 1
Patient Representatives 1
Residential Advisors 1
Self-Enrichment Teachers 1
Social and Human Service Assistants 1
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten 1
Tour Guides and Escorts 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 19 occupations in occupations that perform Teach life skills.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Occupational Therapy Aides Occupational Therapy Assistants Nannies Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education Residential Advisors Special Education Teachers, Preschool Patient Representatives Special Education Teachers, Middle School Self-Enrichment Teachers Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Teach life skills., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Teach life skills." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/teach-life-skills

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Teach life skills. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/teach-life-skills

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-teach-life-skills,
  title  = {Teach life skills},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/teach-life-skills}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.