Tutor students who need extra assistance
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 | 13 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 13 occupations that perform it.
- Assist students who need extra help with their coursework outside of class.
- Prepare students for performances, exams, or assessments.
- Provide individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction.
- Assist students who need extra help, such as by tutoring and preparing and implementing remedial programs.
- Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments or to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
- Visit schools to tutor students with sensory impairments and to consult with teachers regarding students' special needs.
- Tutor or assist students individually or in small groups.
- Prepare and facilitate tutoring workshops, collaborative projects, or academic support sessions for small groups of students.
- Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
- Tutor or mentor students who need additional instruction.
- Provide assistance to students in college writing centers.
- Teach students study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking strategies.
- Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests.
- Travel to students' homes, libraries, or schools to conduct tutoring sessions.
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
13 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Tutors
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.