Special needs teachers
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports56
- Administering various forms of assessment and evaluating progress of each student34
- Designing or modifying curricula and preparing and delivering programmes, lessons and activities adapted to students’ abilities and needs32
- Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional impairments, exceptional intellectual gifts, or other specific problems26
- Establishing and enforcing rules for behaviour and policies and procedures to maintain order among students26
- Conferring with students, parents, head teacher and other relevant professionals involved in the students’ care to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' development.25
- Employing special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory25
- Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students24
- Giving instruction on an individual or group basis using special techniques or aids appropriate to students’ needs24
- Stimulating and developing students’ confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination23
- Teaching academic subjects and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments19
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports(56)
- Administering various forms of assessment and evaluating progress of each student(34)
- Designing or modifying curricula and preparing and delivering programmes, lessons and activities adapted to students’ abilities and needs(32)
- Assessing students' abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional impairments, exceptional intellectual gifts, or other specific problems(26)
- Establishing and enforcing rules for behaviour and policies and procedures to maintain order among students(26)
- Conferring with students, parents, head teacher and other relevant professionals involved in the students’ care to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' development.(25)
- Employing special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory(25)
- Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students(24)
- Giving instruction on an individual or group basis using special techniques or aids appropriate to students’ needs(24)
- Stimulating and developing students’ confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination(23)
- Teaching academic subjects and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments(19)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 28.)
About 9% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Preparing and maintaining student data and other records and submitting reports
- • Administering various forms of assessment and evaluating progress of each student
- • Teaching academic subjects and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments
- • Stimulating and developing students‚Äô confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Teaching professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Teaching professionals |
|---|---|
| Iceland | 9.0% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 7.2% · 370 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 7.1% · 217 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 6.9% · 199 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 6.8% · 294 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 6.7% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 6.4% · 338 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 5.9% · 2,503 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 5.9% · 59 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 5.7% · 158 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.6% · 96 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 5.6% · 1,244 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 5.6% · 1,345 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 5.5% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 5.5% · 142 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 5.4% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 5.4% · 244 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.4% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 5.3% · 904 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 5.2% · 1,788 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 5.2% · 271 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 5.1% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 5.0% · 491 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 5.0% · 233 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 4.8% · 43 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 4.7% · 227 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 4.7% · 1,372 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.5% · 66 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 4.3% · 127 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.9% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.5% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Teaching professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?