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Teaching assistant
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +1.6% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Teachers’ aides (ISCO 5312). Teachers’ aides perform non-teaching duties to assist teaching staff, and provide care and supervision for children in schools and pre-schools.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
40 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- assistant in early years education
- assistant in early years teaching
- assistant in secondary school teaching
- assistant in special educational needs
- early childhood teaching aide
- early childhood teaching assistant
- early years education assistant
- early years TA
- early years teaching assistant
- inclusive education assistant
- kindergarten teaching assistant
- nursery teaching aide
- nursery teaching assistant
- preschool teaching aide
- preschool teaching assistant
- primary education teaching assistant
- primary school assistant
- primary school instructional assistant
- primary school paraprofessional
- primary school TA
- primary school teaching aide
- primary school teaching assistant
- reception teaching assistant
- secondary education teaching assistant
- secondary school assistant
- secondary school instructional assistant
- secondary school paraprofessional
- secondary school TA
- secondary school teaching aide
- secondary school teaching assistant
- SEN TA
- SEN teacher's aide
- SEN teaching assistant
- special education assistant
- special educational needs assistant
- special educational needs teaching assistant
- special needs teaching assistant
- teaching assistant in primary schools
- teaching assistant in secondary schools
- teaching assistant in special educational needs
Training
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Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.