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Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education

Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.

Also called: Bilingual Kindergarten Teacher, Classroom Teacher, Educator, Instructor, Kinder Teacher, Kindergarten Classroom Teacher

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Median pay in Greater Boston
$81,700
Jobs in Greater Boston
1,500
Massachusetts 2024–2034
+1.9%
220 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
Bachelor's degree

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$58,900$63,480$81,700$101,710$107,570

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
  • Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
  • Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.
  • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
  • Demonstrate activities to children.
  • Read books to entire classes or to small groups.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Moderate exposure56 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 55
  • Language-model AIOE 64
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 49

Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)

AI exposure for kindergarten teachers is moderate, and little observed AI use has been seen in this job so far. AI tools may help with planning lessons and adjusting materials. Teaching letters and numbers in person, demonstrating activities, and helping young children behave and stick with hard tasks rely on a teacher in the room.

Likely to change

  • Planning lessons and activity ideas
  • Adjusting materials for different learners

Still relies on people

  • Demonstrating activities to young children
  • Building good behavior and persistence in class

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