Develop educational programs
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Thinking Creatively (4.A.2.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.
- Develop environmental educational programs and curricula for schools.
- Conduct public educational programs on forest care and conservation.
- Develop, or contribute to the development of, educational or outreach programs on the environment or climate change.
- Formulate and implement training programs, applying principles of learning and individual differences.
- Develop, direct, and participate in training programs for staff and students.
- Design classes and programs to meet the needs of special students.
- Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.
- Design and administer training programs for new employees and continuing education for existing employees.
- Plan or lead religious education programs.
- Develop or direct study courses or religious education programs within congregations.
- Develop or write Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students.
- Design patient education programs that include information required to make informed health care and treatment decisions.
- Initiate and direct efforts to foster tolerance, understanding, and appreciation of diversity in school communities.
- Select appropriate curricula or class structures for educational programs.
- Provide educational programs on topics such as classroom management, teaching strategies, or parenting skills.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Clergy
- Climate Change Policy Analysts
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
- Foresters
- Health Education Specialists
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Park Naturalists
- School Psychologists
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop educational programs, plans, or procedures”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.