AI exposure: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach vocational courses intended to provide occupational training below the baccalaureate level in subjects such as construction, mechanics/repair, manufacturing, transportation, or cosmetology, primarily to students who have graduated from or left high school. Teaching takes place in public or private schools whose primary business is academic or vocational education.
Reading this score
computed35.5% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary at the 62th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.2 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 20 tasks it averages 1.82 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Prepare outlines of instructional programs and training schedules and establish course goals, at 86.7%. The least is Serve on faculty and school committees concerned with budgeting, curriculum revision, and..., at 0.0%. A gap of 86.7% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within educational instruction and library occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 42.4% across the group's 62 roles, with 42 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 20 tasks, 12 are currently banded exposed, 2 assisted and 6 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
20 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prepare outlines of instructional programs and training schedules and establish course goals. | 86.7% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Develop curricula and plan course content and methods of instruction. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.26 | exposed |
| Develop teaching aids, such as instructional software, multimedia visual aids, or study materials. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.85 | exposed |
| Arrange for lectures by experts in designated fields. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.04 | exposed |
| Prepare reports and maintain records, such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details. | 58.3% | 29.2% | 12.5% | 4.27 | exposed |
| Review enrollment applications and correspond with applicants to obtain additional information. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.58 | exposed |
| Advise students on course selection, career decisions, and other academic and vocational concerns. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.93 | exposed |
| Select and assemble books, materials, supplies, and equipment for training, courses, or projects. | 39.6% | 22.9% | 37.5% | 4.13 | exposed |
| Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement. | 35.4% | 27.1% | 37.5% | 4.52 | exposed |
| Acquire, maintain, and repair laboratory equipment and tools. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.00 | exposed |
| Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.46 | exposed |
| Provide individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.31 | exposed |
| Administer oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 4.33 | assisted |
| Determine training needs of students or workers. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 4.15 | assisted |
| Present lectures and conduct discussions to increase students' knowledge and competence using visual aids, such as graphs, charts, videotapes, and slides. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.48 | untouched |
| Integrate academic and vocational curricula so that students can obtain a variety of skills. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 4.13 | untouched |
| Conduct on-the-job training classes or training sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, or methods of designated subjects. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 4.09 | untouched |
| Supervise independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work, or other training. | 9.2% | 15.8% | 75.0% | 4.15 | untouched |
| Participate in conferences, seminars, and training sessions to keep abreast of developments in the field, and integrate relevant information into training programs. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.90 | untouched |
| Serve on faculty and school committees concerned with budgeting, curriculum revision, and course and diploma requirements. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.48 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.23 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.90 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.60 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.85 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.82 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.10 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.