Professionals · code 2320
Vocational education teachers
Vocational education teachers teach or instruct vocational or occupational subjects in adult and further education institutions and to senior students in secondary schools and colleges. They prepare students for employment in specific occupations or occupational areas for which university or higher education is not normally required. Tasks include - (a) developing curricula and planning course content and methods of instruction; (b) determining training needs of students or workers and liaising with individuals, industry and other education sectors to ensure provision of relevant education and training programmes; (c) presenting lectures and conducting discussions to increase students’ knowledge and competence; (d) instructing and monitoring students in the use of tools, equipment and materials and the prevention of injury and damage; (e) observing and evaluating students’ work to determine progress, provide feedback and make suggestions for improvement; (f) administering oral, written or performance tests to measure progress, evaluate training effectiveness and assess competency; (g) preparing reports and maintaining records such as student grades, attendance rolls and training activity details; (h) supervising independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work or other training; (i) providing individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction; (j) conducting on-the-job training sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures or methods of designated subjects. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Automotive technology instructor - Cosmetology instructor - Vocational education teacher Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - School principal - 1345 - Secondary education teacher - 2330 Notes Those who teach vocational subjects that are intended to prepare students for employment in a particular occupational group should be classified in Unit Group 2320: Vocational Education Teachers, whether they work in a general secondary school or in a vocational or technical school or college. Those who teach, at secondary education level, subjects such as mathematics that do not aim to prepare students for employment in a specific occupational area, should be classified in Unit Group 2330: Secondary Education Teachers, even if they are employed in a vocational or technical college.
A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 273 of 427 for holding up against AI.
Also known as
- vocational teacher
Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.
against AI Minimal Exposure
AI could take on 34.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 34.8 = 65.2
That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.
out of 100
From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs
and cramped
finger skill 32.1 · hand skill 31 · cramped spaces 18.2 · averaged
Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on
Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
What this number leaves out This job rates 44.5 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.
The tasks behind the score
The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.
The task AI could do most of scores 65, while the average is 34.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.
- 65
Preparing reports and maintaining records such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details
Medium - 43.5
Developing curricula and planning course content and methods of instruction
Low - 36
Determining training needs of students or workers and liaising with individuals, industry and other education sectors to ensure provision of relevant education and training programmes
Low - 34
Administering oral, written or performance tests to measure progress, evaluate training effectiveness and assess competency
Low - 31.5
Presenting lectures and conducting discussions to increase students' knowledge and competence
Low - 31.5
Supervising independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work or other training
Low - 31.5
Conducting on-the-job training sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, or methods of designated subjects.
Low - 29.8
Observing and evaluating students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement
Low - 24.5
Providing individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction
Very Low - 21
Instructing and monitoring students in the use of tools, equipment and materials and the prevention of injury and damage
Very Low
10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting
Helped, or replaced?
The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.
One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.
- AI helps you
- 71
- AI does it for you
- 48
Helping wins by 23 points.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2422
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