Secondary education teaching professionals

maintains records of students’ progress and development

School MIS platforms increasingly integrate AI to auto-populate attendance, grades, and progress data, and tools like Power BI can generate progress reports, significantly reducing manual record-keeping burden.

prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress

AI can generate practice questions, mark multiple-choice or structured written responses (e.g. via tools like Gradescope or ChatGPT), and flag patterns in student errors, but teachers must interpret results, provide nuanced feedback, and make professional judgements on progress.

prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches one or more subjects

AI tools like ChatGPT or Eduaide.ai can generate lesson plans, suggest teaching strategies, and create differentiated resources, but the teacher must adapt these to their specific class, deliver them with human engagement, and manage real-time classroom dynamics.

assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties

AI tools like ChatGPT or specialist edtech platforms can analyse curriculum frameworks, suggest sequencing, and draft schemes of work, but professional judgement, local context, and collaborative decision-making remain essential.

prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations

AI can help create revision materials, mock papers, and exam technique guides tailored to specific syllabuses, but invigilation, pastoral support during exam stress, and official administration require human presence and accountability.

supervises teaching assistants and trainees

Supervising teaching assistants and trainees requires professional mentorship, observation, and interpersonal leadership that is fundamentally human, though AI could help generate structured observation frameworks or feedback templates.

discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals

Parent and professional discussions require empathy, nuanced communication, and relational trust that AI cannot provide, though AI could help teachers prepare summaries or talking points from student data beforehand.

supervises any practical work and maintains classroom discipline

Maintaining physical classroom discipline and supervising practical work requires real-time human presence, authority, and interpersonal judgement that AI cannot replicate, though AI might assist with behaviour tracking software.

undertakes pastoral duties

Pastoral care involves emotional intelligence, trust-building, and sensitive human relationships that AI cannot substitute, though AI tools like Woebot could supplement student wellbeing resources in limited ways.