Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.

“Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.” is a core task performed by Special Education Teachers, Preschool. Among the occupation's 36 rated tasks, workers place it 13th by importance (#24 most important). About 96% 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.

• Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise. in Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

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
• Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play. · importance 4.4

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-19088,
  title  = {Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence.},
  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-19088}
}