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Will AI replace Special Education Teachers, Secondary School?

AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.

30/100

Moderate exposure

More exposed to AI than 47% of US workers.

AI already used in
18% of the work
As AI tools mature: up to
45% of the work

What the job involves

Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Where AI reaches the work

The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.

Already happening(8)

  • Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
  • Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
  • Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of secondary school programs.

and 3 more

Within reach(10)

  • Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
  • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
  • Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
  • Administer standardized ability and achievement tests, and interpret results to determine students' strengths and needs.

and 5 more

Out of reach(22)

  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
  • Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
  • Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
  • Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
  • Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.

and 17 more

Also called

Handicapped Teacher · Deaf Teacher · HS SPED Teacher (High School Special Education Teacher) · SPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher) · Blind Teacher · Braille Teacher · High School Learning Support Teacher · HS SPED Teacher

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What these numbers mean

The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.

“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.

The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.

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