Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.

“Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.” is a core task performed by Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary. Among the occupation's 32 rated tasks, workers place it 29th by importance (#4 most important). About 91% 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.

• Develop educational programs, plans, or procedures. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.022% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 66% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.6 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 91% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues. · importance 4.5
• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems. · importance 4.5
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements. · importance 4.4
• Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives. · importance 4.3
• Enforce discipline and attendance rules. · importance 4.3
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff. · importance 4.2
• Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff. · importance 4.2
• Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions. · importance 4.2
• Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out. · importance 4.2
• Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. · importance 4.1
• Create school improvement plans, using student performance data. · importance 4.0
• Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases. · importance 4.0
• Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding. · importance 4.0
• Establish, coordinate, and oversee particular programs across school districts, such as programs to evaluate student academic achievement. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}