All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 70% of today's career/technical education teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 39% 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
15% 2030 · 39% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 19% 2027: 21% 2028: 24% 2029: 30% 2030: 36% 2031: 44% 2032: 52% 2033: 59% 2034: 64% 2035: 67% 2036: 70% 36% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 96 2030: 94 2031: 92 2032: 89 2033: 87 2034: 85 2035: 84 2036: 83 94 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 Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment. 2 Conduct on-the-job training classes or training sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, or methods of designated subjects. 3 Acquire, maintain, and repair laboratory equipment and tools. 4 Develop teaching aids, such as instructional software, multimedia visual aids, or study materials. 5 Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement. 6 Administer oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness. 7 Prepare reports and maintain records, such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details. 8 Review enrollment applications and correspond with applicants to obtain additional information. 9 Prepare outlines of instructional programs and training schedules and establish course goals. 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: "Prepare reports and maintain records, such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Develop teaching aids, such as instructional software, multimedia visual aids, or study materials". Get visibly better at your human core: "Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 20 O*NET tasks for "Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1194.00). LLM alone: 13% of tasks; with AI tools: 85%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
