UK AI Exposure · Professional occupations
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 genuinely hard for AI to do. Physical presence, bodily skill, high-context judgment, direct human care - the things that don't translate to text.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
You're not in the firing line today. But the frontier moves. Build enough AI fluency now that you can direct it for the parts of your work that could benefit. People in unexposed roles who understand AI become unusually valuable inside their organisations.
Most of the routine task inventory in this role can already be done by a capable LLM. That doesn't mean the role disappears - it means the shape changes, and one person can credibly do the work of several.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Stop doing anything an LLM can do. Your edge is judgment, relationships, taste, and the parts of the work that require you to be in the room. The operators who notice this first and redesign their workflow around it will be paid for those things; the ones who cling to the old task list will compete against AI at AI's prices.
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
These are the highest-importance tasks a language model can already handle directly today. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these, so they stop eating your 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 highest-importance tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these — usually the difference between an LLM that can technically 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 wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
The full task breakdown
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can already do unaided versus what still needs a human. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
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.
Where humans still hold the line
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.
Where humans still hold the line
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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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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