Teach classes or courses or provide direct care to children.

“Teach classes or courses or provide direct care to children.” is a core task performed by Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#4 most important). About 79% 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.

• Teach academic or vocational subjects. in Training and Teaching Others

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

• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities and policies and students' behavioral or learning problems. · importance 4.7
• Monitor students' progress and provide students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems. · importance 4.4
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff and recommend personnel actions for programs and services. · importance 4.3
• Set educational standards and goals and help establish policies, procedures, and programs to carry them out. · importance 4.2
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings and prepare drafts of program schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements. · importance 4.1
• Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment and authorize purchases. · importance 4.1
• Direct and coordinate activities of teachers or administrators at daycare centers, schools, public agencies, or institutions. · importance 4.0
• Prepare and maintain attendance, activity, planning, accounting, or personnel reports and records for officials and agencies, or direct preparation and maintenance activities. · importance 4.0
• Plan, direct, and monitor instructional methods and content of educational, vocational, or student activity programs. · importance 3.9
• Review and interpret government codes and develop procedures to meet codes and to ensure facility safety, security, and maintenance. · importance 3.8
• Review and evaluate new and current programs to determine their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with state, local, and federal regulations and recommend any necessary modifications. · importance 3.8
• Collect and analyze survey data, regulatory information, and demographic and employment trends to forecast enrollment patterns and the need for curriculum changes. · importance 3.6
• Prepare and submit budget requests or grant proposals to solicit program funding. · importance 3.5
• Organize and direct committees of specialists, volunteers, and staff to provide technical and advisory assistance for programs. · importance 3.5

See all tasks on the Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 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-5204,
  title  = {Teach classes or courses or provide direct care to children.},
  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-5204}
}