Teachers spend up to 29 hours a week doing nonteaching tasks: writing emails, grading, finding classroom resources, and carrying out other administrative work. They also have high stress levels and are at risk for burnout.
Can artificial intelligence help ease both those problems?
Advocates say AI can be a real timesaver for teachers, completing tasks in seconds that would have taken a person hours. While educators caution that AI will never replace a teacher’s professional expertise, many argue that it can take the more mundane, rote job duties off teachers’ plates—reshaping a notoriously high-stress job.
Already, 9 in 10 educators say artificial intelligence has changed the job of teaching at least a little, according to a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey of teachers, school leaders, and district leaders, conducted in December. Forty-two percent said AI has changed the profession “a fair amount” or “a lot.”
And the job will change as AI gets more advanced and teachers become more comfortable with its use, educators predict: About three-quarters said AI will change the profession “a fair amount” or “a lot” over the next five years.
Part of that perceived change likely stems from the way students may be using AI to complete assignments. But another way AI is changing the profession involves the day-to-day work.
The EdWeek Research Center asked 990 educators (mostly teachers) to share an example of how they use AI in their classroom or daily work. Although many respondents said they aren’t using AI in the classroom at all, other responses show that teachers are leaning on AI tools to make their jobs easier, including by creating such classroom materials as quizzes and assignments, drafting emails to parents and administrators, helping individualize instruction, and refining and enhancing lessons.
Source: Education Week (Feb 2025)
Key point: Teachers report AI saving hours per week on tasks such as writing quizzes, drafting communications, and refining lessons – reshaping the teaching role.
Quote: Many educators see AI take on tasks that would otherwise take hours, allowing them more time with students.
🔗 https://www.edweek.org/technology/heres-how-teachers-are-using-ai-to-save-time/2025/02