Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.

“Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.” is a core task performed by Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education. Among the occupation's 34 rated tasks, workers place it 27th by importance (#8 most important). About 99% 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 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.

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.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 57% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 4.0 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 94% 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

• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills. · importance 4.6
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play. · importance 4.6
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order. · importance 4.6
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. · importance 4.6
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines. · importance 4.5
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers. · importance 4.5
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development. · importance 4.5
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. · importance 4.4
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists. · importance 4.4
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them. · importance 4.4
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations. · importance 4.4
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities. · importance 4.4
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups. · importance 4.4
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 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  = {Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.},
  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-6469}
}