Teach classes in area of specialization
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 21 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Training and Teaching Others (4.A.4.b.3) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 21 occupations that perform it.
- Teach classes or courses or provide direct care to children.
- Teach classes or courses to students.
- Teach courses within their department.
- Teach fitness classes to improve strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, or general fitness of participants.
- Teach in colleges and universities.
- Develop and deliver training on weather topics.
- Teach courses in environmental economics.
- Share information about religious issues by writing articles, giving speeches, or teaching.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.
- Teach writing or communication classes.
- Conduct classes, workshops, and demonstrations to teach principles, techniques, or methods in subjects, such as basic English language skills, life skills, and workforce entry skills.
- Answer students' questions.
- Teach undergraduate-level courses.
- Teach artistic techniques to children or adults.
- Teach acting classes.
- Provide communication instruction to dialect speakers or students with limited English proficiency.
- Instruct individuals or groups in the use of art media, such as paint, clay, or yarn.
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.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
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.
Enterprise platforms
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
21 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
- Art Therapists
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Clergy
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Environmental Economists
- Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Materials Engineers
- Pediatricians, General
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
- Talent Directors
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Teach academic or vocational subjects”. 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.