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Service and sales workers · code 5312

Teachers' aides

Teachers’ aides perform non-teaching duties to assist teaching staff, and provide care and supervision for children in schools and pre-schools. Tasks include - (a) demonstrating, supervising and participating in activities that enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of children in schools and pre-schools; (b) preparing indoor and outdoor areas for learning and recreational activities; (c) assisting children with intellectual, physical, behavioural and other learning difficulties with their studies; (d) assisting children individually to learn social skills; (e) assisting with preparing teaching materials, and copying and collating written and printed material; (f) operating audiovisual equipment, computers and other teaching aides; (g) distributing and collecting lesson material. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Pre-school assistant - Teacher’s assistant

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 189 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • special educational needs assistant
  • early years teaching assistant
  • primary school teaching assistant
  • secondary school teaching assistant

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

75.9
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 24.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 24.1 = 75.9

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

29.1
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

15.1
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 17 · hand skill 16 · cramped spaces 12.1 · 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 29.1 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 53.5, while the average is 24.1. 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. 53.5

    Assisting with preparing teaching materials, and copying and collating written and printed material

    Medium
  2. 31.5

    Operating audio-visual equipment, computers and other teaching aides

    Low
  3. 20

    Distributing and collecting lesson material.

    Very Low
  4. 18

    Demonstrating, supervising and participating in activities that enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of children in schools and pre-schools

    Very Low
  5. 16.5

    Preparing indoor and outdoor areas for learning and recreational activities

    Very Low
  6. 15

    Assisting children with intellectual, physical, behavioural and other learning difficulties with their studies

    Very Low
  7. 14.3

    Assisting children individually to learn social skills

    Very Low

7 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
65
AI does it for you
31

Helping wins by 34 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4221

Compared with similar jobs

There are 39 jobs in the “Service and sales workers” group, averaging 74.4. This one is above that.