Which jobs involve set up classroom materials or equipment?

17 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School, Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education, Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Set up classroom materials or equipment

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	17 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 17 occupations that perform it.

Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
Prepare materials and classroom for class activities.
Arrange indoor or outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, or safety.
Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.
Laminate teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.
Prepare and set up for new employee orientations.
Prepare materials, classrooms, and other indoor and outdoor spaces to facilitate creative play, learning and motor-skill activities, and safety.
Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves 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.

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.

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Who does this work

17 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Set up classrooms, facilities, educational materials, or equipment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Display student work	11
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children	3

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.