AI and British Council’s Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) Framework

AI and British Council’s Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) Framework

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.

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.

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.