Using AI Well as a Teacher: Safe, Smart, Practical

What's inside

1. Level 1: What AI Can and Can't Do in Your ClassroomFree
   We look honestly at what AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot do well and badly in a teacher's day, using dated evidence of how teachers are actually using them.
2. Level 2: Approved Tools and Your School's AI PolicyFree
   You'll find out which AI tools your school or college has approved, what its policy allows, and why a work account is different from a personal one.
3. Level 3: The DfE's Guidance on Generative AI in Education
   We go through the Department for Education's current guidance on generative AI in education and what it expects of you as a teacher.
4. Level 4: Data Protection: What Never Goes in a Prompt
   You'll learn how UK GDPR and confidentiality apply when you use AI, and build a habit of anonymising before you paste anything in.
5. Level 5: Checking for Accuracy, Bias and Made-Up Facts
   We build a quick, repeatable routine for checking AI output for errors, made-up facts and references, out-of-date content and bias before anything reaches pupils.
6. Level 6: Planning Lessons and Sequences with AI
   You'll use AI to draft a lesson plan and a short sequence of lessons, then improve them with your own subject knowledge and knowledge of your class.
7. Level 7: Creating and Adapting Resources and Quizzes
   We use AI to make worksheets, explanations, examples and quizzes, and check that every question and answer is correct and pitched at the right level.
8. Level 8: Differentiation and SEND Support
   You'll use AI to create scaffolded and stretch versions of a task and support for pupils with SEND, guided by each pupil's needs rather than by labels.
9. Level 9: EAL Learners and Accessible Resources
   We use AI to support pupils learning English as an additional language and to make resources more accessible, while checking translations and simplified texts with care.
10. Level 10: Drafting Feedback and Marking Support
    You'll use AI to help draft feedback and spot patterns across anonymised work, while you stay in charge of every judgement and every mark.
11. Level 11: Reports and Emails to Parents
    We draft report comments and parent emails with AI, keeping them accurate, personal, kind and free of confidential details in the prompt.
12. Level 12: Routine Admin Without the Drudgery
    You'll use AI for everyday admin such as meeting notes, letters, trip plans, schedules and summaries of long documents, checking each output before you rely on it.
13. Level 13: Behaviour and Pastoral Writing in Outline
    We look at where AI can help structure behaviour and pastoral documents in outline only, and where sensitive records and decisions must stay entirely human.
14. Level 14: JCQ Rules: AI and Assessment Integrity
    You'll learn what the JCQ's current guidance on AI use in assessments requires of teachers and candidates, and how to act on suspected misuse.
15. Level 15: Pupils' Data and Age Limits on AI Tools
    We cover the age limits and terms of popular AI tools, and what that means before you ask pupils to use them or put their work into them.
16. Level 16: Safeguarding, KCSIE and AI
    You'll connect AI to your safeguarding duties under Keeping Children Safe in Education, including online risks, filtering and monitoring, and harmful AI-generated content.
17. Level 17: Honest AI Use: Your Pupils and Yourself
    We look at how to teach pupils to use AI honestly and openly, and how you can be just as open about your own AI use with colleagues, pupils and parents.
18. Level 18: Using AI to Deepen Your Own Expertise
    You'll use AI as a thinking partner to test your subject knowledge, rehearse explanations and explore teaching approaches, so your own judgement grows instead of fading.
19. Level 19: Colleagues, the Future and Your 30-Day Plan
    We practise talking to managers and colleagues about AI, think honestly and with open uncertainty about how teaching roles may change, and build your personal 30-day plan.
20. Level 20: Final Challenge: Using AI Well, End to End Exam
    You'll bring the whole course together in realistic scenarios covering planning, inclusion, feedback, admin, integrity, data protection and safeguarding.

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