Teach courses within their department.

“Teach courses within their department.” is a supplemental task performed by Education Administrators, Postsecondary. Among the occupation's 29 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#19 most important). About 61% 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 E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task 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 1.00. 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.

• 95% 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.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Direct activities of administrative departments, such as admissions, registration, and career services. · importance 4.3
• Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance. · importance 4.2
• Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions. · importance 4.2
• Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes. · importance 4.1
• Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel. · importance 4.0
• Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations. · importance 3.9
• Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards. · importance 3.9
• Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions. · importance 3.9
• Participate in student recruitment, selection, and admission, making admissions recommendations when required to do so. · importance 3.9
• Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports. · importance 3.8
• Formulate strategic plans for the institution. · importance 3.8
• Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment. · importance 3.8
• Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information. · importance 3.8
• Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Education Administrators, Postsecondary 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-5248,
  title  = {Teach courses within their department.},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-5248}
}