AI for Teacher Development
Practical Applications within the British Council’s CPD Framework
Nik Peachey - Pedagogical Director - PeacheyPublications
Agenda
01
05
Some practical examples
How do you feel?
02
AI assistants & chatbots
06
Ethical considerations
03
07
AI and the CPD Framework
Resources
04
08
Creating interactive prompts
Q and A
How do you feel about AI?
How do you feel about AI?
AI assistants and chatbots
- Answers any question
- Never gets tired, bored or impatient
- Has no ego or selfconsciousnes
- Short attention span
- Can follow conversational threads
- Can instigate response
- Can be programmed
- Can be used to power other apps
AI and British Council’s Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) Framework
Interactive Prompting
Asign the AI a Role: Act as .... Tell it what you want it to achieve: Create ... Outline a process: Do this by... Tell it about your context: I am ... Add some rules: Use language suitable for ... Ask one question at a time and wait for me to answer before asking the next question.
Understanding and developing my professional identity AI can: Design an interactive quiz to help you explore your own teaching values and biases.
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Managing the lesson AI can: Help you create action research to understand your classroom practice.
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Interactive Prompting
Asign the AI a Role: Act as .... Tell it what you want it to achieve: Create ... Outline a process: Do this by... Tell it about your context: I am ... Add some rules: Use language suitable for ... Ask one question at a time and wait for me to answer before asking the next question.
Ethical considerations?
Ethical considerations?
Safety of
personal
information
Plagiarism
Uncritical use
Bias
Copyright
Age restrictions
Equitable
access
Identity issues
Erosion of trust
Sourcing
Erosion of confidence
Environmental impact
Resources
Any questions?
Thank you
www.britishcouncil.org
Understanding my context
AI can:
- Create an interactive quiz to test your understanding and awareness of your context and help you identify areas you need to develop.
- Help you understand how to leverage your local community to support learning in your classroom.
Prompt example
Act as a teacher mentor.Design an interactive quiz to help me explore my teaching values and biases.Walk me through the quiz using open questions and then provide a summary.I am a teacher trainer working online with teachers around the world.Rules:Use language suitable for level B2 of The Common European Framework of Reference.Ask me ten questions.Ask one question each time and wait for my answer before asking the next question.When you provide the summary also give me some suggestions for areas I could improve.
Understanding and developing my professional identity
AI can:
- Design an interactive quiz to help you explore your own teaching values and biases
- Help you design career plans, action plans and SMART goals.
Managing the lesson
AI can:
- Walk you through reflective cycles and help you gain insights.
- Give you advice on classroom language and breaking down your instructions.
- Give you tips on how to promote a positive environment.
- Help you create action research to understand your classroom practice.
Using multilingual practices
AI can:
- Create multilingual materials such as parallel texts, multilingual word banks etc.
- Help you develop scaffolding techniques and materials to support your learners.
- Give you suggestions for integrating trans-languaging techniques into lesson plans, goals and aims.
- Translate communications with parents and produce multilingual materials to help parents support their children.
Using inclusive practices
AI can:
- Give you advice and suggestions for supporting neurodiverse learners.
- Give you suggestions for integrating diversity into lessons and syllabus.
- Help you understand inclusive pedagogy and how to apply it.
Planning lessons and courses
AI can:
- Help you with planning a lesson.
- Help you define outcomes and aims that better suit your leaners.
- Help you analyse and anticipate potential classroom problems.
Knowing the subject
AI can:
- Engage with you in socratic discussions on aspects of subject knowledge and help you explore and develop your understanding.
- Help you analyse grammar and other language items and identify contexts and suitable teaching approaches.
- Help you develop your knowledge of different teaching techniques and approaches.
Using 21st century skills / core skills
AI can:
- Help you integrate critical thinking into you materials/syllabus.
- Suggest ways that you can enhance your lessons using digital literacy skills.
- Suggest ways you can integrate life skills into your lessons and syllabus.
Prompt example
Act as an expert on action research.Help me create an action research project for my classroom.Do this by asking me questions about my classroom and walking me through the process of creating an action research project.I am an English language teacher. I'm working with a large group of learners who come from different language backgrounds. They are 12 - 13 years old. Rules:Use language suitable for level B1 of The Common European Framework of Reference.The action research project should be done in one single lesson.Ask one question each time and wait for my answer before asking the next question.
Using digital technologies
AI can:
- Suggest ideas for integrating digital literacies into your lesson plans.
- Suggest ways of integrating digital literacies into your development.
- Analyse your digital literacies for teaching and help you identify areas to develop and how to develop them.
Assessing learning
AI can:
- Help you design rubrics for evaluating learners work.
- Help you apply the rubric.
- Help you give learners supportive feedback.
- Help you show learners how to get feedback independently.
Understanding my learners
AI can:
- Give you advice/information about cultures and languages that are new to you and the challenges your learners are likely to face.
- Design an interactive quiz to help you find out how much you know and what you need to know.
- Help you design action research projects to learn more about your lessons.
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AI for Teacher Development
Practical Applications within the British Council’s CPD Framework
Nik Peachey - Pedagogical Director - PeacheyPublications
Agenda
01
05
Some practical examples
How do you feel?
02
AI assistants & chatbots
06
Ethical considerations
03
07
AI and the CPD Framework
Resources
04
08
Creating interactive prompts
Q and A
How do you feel about AI?
How do you feel about AI?
AI assistants and chatbots
AI and British Council’s Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) Framework
Interactive Prompting
Asign the AI a Role: Act as .... Tell it what you want it to achieve: Create ... Outline a process: Do this by... Tell it about your context: I am ... Add some rules: Use language suitable for ... Ask one question at a time and wait for me to answer before asking the next question.
Understanding and developing my professional identity AI can: Design an interactive quiz to help you explore your own teaching values and biases.
76
Managing the lesson AI can: Help you create action research to understand your classroom practice.
76
Interactive Prompting
Asign the AI a Role: Act as .... Tell it what you want it to achieve: Create ... Outline a process: Do this by... Tell it about your context: I am ... Add some rules: Use language suitable for ... Ask one question at a time and wait for me to answer before asking the next question.
Ethical considerations?
Ethical considerations?
Safety of personal information
Plagiarism
Uncritical use
Bias
Copyright
Age restrictions
Equitable access
Identity issues
Erosion of trust
Sourcing
Erosion of confidence
Environmental impact
Resources
Any questions?
Thank you
www.britishcouncil.org
Understanding my context
AI can:
Prompt example
Act as a teacher mentor.Design an interactive quiz to help me explore my teaching values and biases.Walk me through the quiz using open questions and then provide a summary.I am a teacher trainer working online with teachers around the world.Rules:Use language suitable for level B2 of The Common European Framework of Reference.Ask me ten questions.Ask one question each time and wait for my answer before asking the next question.When you provide the summary also give me some suggestions for areas I could improve.
Understanding and developing my professional identity
AI can:
Managing the lesson
AI can:
Using multilingual practices
AI can:
Using inclusive practices
AI can:
Planning lessons and courses
AI can:
Knowing the subject
AI can:
Using 21st century skills / core skills
AI can:
Prompt example
Act as an expert on action research.Help me create an action research project for my classroom.Do this by asking me questions about my classroom and walking me through the process of creating an action research project.I am an English language teacher. I'm working with a large group of learners who come from different language backgrounds. They are 12 - 13 years old. Rules:Use language suitable for level B1 of The Common European Framework of Reference.The action research project should be done in one single lesson.Ask one question each time and wait for my answer before asking the next question.
Using digital technologies
AI can:
Assessing learning
AI can:
Understanding my learners
AI can: