Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.

“Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.” is a core task performed by Special Education Teachers, Preschool. Among the occupation's 36 rated tasks, workers place it 23rd by importance (#14 most important). About 90% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Set up classrooms, facilities, educational materials, or equipment. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory. · importance 4.7
• Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement. · importance 4.7
• Communicate nonverbally with children to provide them with comfort, encouragement, or positive reinforcement. · importance 4.7
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, or social skills, to preschool students with special needs. · importance 4.6
• Develop individual educational plans (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, or social development. · importance 4.6
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual education plans (IEPs). · importance 4.6
• Teach students personal development skills, such as goal setting, independence, or self-advocacy. · importance 4.6
• Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities. · importance 4.5
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. · importance 4.5
• Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment or materials to prevent injuries and damage. · importance 4.4
• Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, or potential. · importance 4.4
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students. · importance 4.4
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, or changing their diapers. · importance 4.4
• Monitor teachers or teacher assistants to ensure adherence to special education program requirements. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Special Education Teachers, Preschool page.

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-19079,
  title  = {Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-19079}
}