What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.
The government's profile of this job doesn't mention AI.
BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026
Covers kindergarten and elementary school teachers.
As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.
O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026
Studies, trials and surveys that name this job, oldest evidence labeled as such.
0.19on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education (SOC 25-2021)
How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
0.18on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education (SOC 25-2031)
How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.
High school teachers, for comparison.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
Share of Claude.ai conversations mapped to the Educational Instruction and Library occupation group.
“up from 9% of conversations on Claude.ai in January 2025 to 15% in November”
Covers all education occupations (and students' use), not teachers alone.
Anthropic Economic Index, January 2026, Jan 15, 2026
Gallup and Walton Family Foundation survey of 2,232 U.S. public K-12 teachers, March 18 to April 11, 2025.
“Teachers who use AI tools at least weekly estimate they save 5.9 hours per week, on average.”
Also: “In the 2024-25 school year, six in 10 teachers reported using an AI tool for their work.”
Self-reported time savings; covers all K-12 teachers.
Gallup, Jun 24, 2025
How far the evidence has got for tasks this job involves, on our six-step ladder.
Every taskChecked Oct 19, 2026. How we check
