Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 16 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Documenting/Recording Information (4.A.3.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 16 occupations that perform it.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Modify the general preschool curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Interpret or transcribe classroom materials into Braille or sign language.
- Modify the general elementary education curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and instructional technology.
- Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
- Adapt instructional techniques to the age and skill levels of students.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs, abilities, and interests.
- Update the content of educational programs to ensure that students are being trained with equipment and processes that are technologically current.
- Complete laboratory projects prior to assigning them to students so that any needed modifications can be made.
- Modify the general kindergarten education curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Provide interpretation and transcription of regular classroom materials through Braille and sign language.
- Adapt instructional content or delivery methods for different levels or types of learners.
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 recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
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.
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
16 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Adapted Physical Education Specialists
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
- Instructional Coordinators
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare informational or instructional materials”. 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.