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Professionals · code 2351

Education methods specialists

Education methods specialists conduct research and develop or advise on teaching methods, courses and aids. They review and examine teachers’ work, the functioning of educational institutions and the results achieved and recommend changes and improvements. Tasks include - (a) researching into current developments in curricula, teaching methods and other educational practices, and advising on necessary changes and possible improvements; (b) evaluating and advising on contents of courses and methods of examination; (c) researching into audiovisual and other teaching aids and advising on, planning and organizing their introduction in educational establishments; (d) documenting subjects and courses developed, and evaluating new courses; (e) providing ongoing professional development, training and consultative services to teachers; (f) organizing and conducting workshops and conferences to train teachers in new programmes and methods; (g) developing the structure, content and objectives of new educational courses and programmes; (h) visiting schools periodically and conferring with administrative and teaching staff on questions relating to curricula, teaching methods, equipment and other matters; (i) visiting classrooms to observe teaching techniques and to evaluate teachers’ performance and scholastic results obtained; (j) preparing reports and making recommendations to educational authorities concerning possible changes and improvements in curricula, teaching methods, and other matters. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Curriculum coordinator - Curriculum developer - Education methods specialist - Schools inspector - Teaching aids specialist Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - School counsellor - 2359 - Student adviser - 2359 - Educational psychologist - 2634

The mildest of the ILO’s four “exposed” groups. It ranks 325 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • educational researcher
  • curriculum administrator
  • education inspector
  • special educational needs coordinator

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

60.7
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 1

AI could take on 39.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 39.3 = 60.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

21
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

8.8
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 21.4 · hand skill 3.6 · cramped spaces 1.5 · 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 21 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 59.8, while the average is 39.3. 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.

  1. 59.8

    Documenting subjects and courses developed, and evaluating new courses

    Medium
  2. 49.8

    Developing the structure, content and objectives of new educational courses and programmes

    Low
  3. 48.5

    Evaluating and advising on contents of courses and methods of examination

    Low
  4. 43.5

    Preparing reports and making recommendations to educational authorities concerning possible changes and improvements in curricula, teaching methods, and other matters.

    Low
  5. 41.5

    Researching into current developments in curricula, teaching methods and other educational practices, and advising on necessary changes and possible improvements

    Low
  6. 36

    Researching into audiovisual and other teaching aids and advising on, planning and organizing their introduction in educational establishments

    Low
  7. 33.5

    Providing ongoing professional development, training and consultative services to teachers

    Low
  8. 30

    Organizing and conducting workshops and conferences to train teachers in new programmes and methods

    Low
  9. 27

    Visiting schools periodically and conferring with administrative and teaching staff on questions relating to curricula, teaching methods, equipment and other matters

    Low
  10. 23.5

    Visiting classrooms to observe teaching techniques and to evaluate teachers performance, and scholastic results obtained

    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, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
71
AI does it for you
39

Helping wins by 32 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2491

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.3. This one is below that.