Further education
teaching professionals
Further education teaching professionals supervise and teach trade, technical, commercial, adult education, secondary and post-secondary courses to students beyond minimum school leaving age.
- Employees (UK)
- 55k
- Median annual pay
- £38,642
- Exposure score ?
- 1.6/10 Minimal 6.0/10 High strict reading, with tools is 6.0/10 with-tools reading, strict is 1.6/10
- Wage exposure
- £340m £1.28bn
Higher exposure than 72% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Most of the routine work in this role can already be done by a capable model. The role does not disappear, but its shape changes, and one person can credibly cover the work of several.
If you are in this role
Stop spending time on what a model can do well. Your value is judgement, relationships and the parts of the work that need you in the room. Redesign the workflow around that before someone else does it for you.
Where the work usually starts.
These are the most important tasks a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around them, so they stop eating the team's time.
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Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
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Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
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Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Instruct students in the knowledge and skills required in a specific occupation or occupational field, using a systematic plan of lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, and laboratory, shop, and field studies.
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Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
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Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School" (25-2032.00).
What AI can already do
5 of 33 tasks, unaided
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
What still needs a person
28 of 33 tasks
Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
Prepare materials and classroom for class activities.
Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Instruct students in the knowledge and skills required in a specific occupation or occupational field, using a systematic plan of lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, and laboratory, shop, and field studies.
Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage.
Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
Guide and counsel students with adjustments, academic problems, or special academic interests.
Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
Assign and grade class work and homework.
Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
Keep informed about trends in education and subject matter specialties.
Plan and supervise work-experience programs in businesses, industrial shops, and school laboratories.
Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
Place students in jobs, or make referrals to job placement services.
Select, order, store, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.
Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
Tasks via O*NET "Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School" (25-2032.00).
What AI can already do
17 of 33 tasks, with tools
Instruct students in the knowledge and skills required in a specific occupation or occupational field, using a systematic plan of lectures, discussions, audio-visual presentations, and laboratory, shop, and field studies.
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
Assign and grade class work and homework.
Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
Keep informed about trends in education and subject matter specialties.
Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
Place students in jobs, or make referrals to job placement services.
Select, order, store, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.
Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
What still needs a person
16 of 33 tasks
Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
Prepare materials and classroom for class activities.
Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage.
Guide and counsel students with adjustments, academic problems, or special academic interests.
Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
Plan and supervise work-experience programs in businesses, industrial shops, and school laboratories.
Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
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This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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