All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 53% of today's adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors tasks by 2036, and there is a 26% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI both assists and takes over tasks.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
12% 2030 · 26% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 17% 2027: 18% 2028: 21% 2029: 25% 2030: 29% 2031: 35% 2032: 40% 2033: 45% 2034: 49% 2035: 51% 2036: 53% 29% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 97 2030: 96 2031: 94 2032: 92 2033: 91 2034: 90 2035: 89 2036: 88 96 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics. 2 Prepare students for further education by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks. 3 Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities. 4 Select, order, and issue books, materials, and supplies for courses or projects. 5 Select and schedule class times to ensure maximum attendance. 6 Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress and make suggestions for improvement. 7 Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws or administrative policies. 8 Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration. 9 Write instructional articles on designated subjects. 10 Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students. Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws or administrative policies". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Select, order, and issue books, materials, and supplies for courses or projects". Get visibly better at your human core: "Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 39 O*NET tasks for "Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors" (SOC 25-3011.00). LLM alone: 18% of tasks; with AI tools: 63%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
