Level 1: The Beginner Course

Focus: Efficiency, Basic Literacy, and Administrative Relief.

Course Goals

• Demystify AI: Understand what Artificial Intelligence can (and cannot) do in a classroom.

• Time Recovery: Use AI to automate repetitive tasks like lesson planning and emailing.

• Safety: Learn the essential rules for data privacy and ethical AI use.

Lesson 1: AI Foundations & The “GOLD” Rule

• Topic: How Generative AI works (as a “prediction engine”) and the importance of human oversight.

• Activity: Learning to write a “GOLD” prompt (Goal, Output, Level, Details) to get high-quality results immediately.

Lesson 2: The 60-Second Lesson Plan

• Topic: Transforming a single topic into a full lesson structure.

• Activity: Using AI to generate a lesson outline, specific learning objectives, and a 10-question quiz for any subject.

Lesson 3: The Resource Factory

• Topic: Creating the “paperwork” of teaching.

• Activity: Generating a grading rubric, a classroom newsletter, and a professional email to parents based on a specific student scenario.

Lesson 4: Differentiation for All

• Topic: Adapting content for different learning needs.

• Activity: Taking one text and asking the AI to rewrite it for three different reading levels (e.g., simplified, standard, and advanced).

Level 2: The Intermediate Course

Focus: Pedagogical Innovation, Student AI Literacy, and Assessment Design.

Course Goals

• Strategic Planning: Use AI as a “thinking partner” to improve curriculum design.

• AI-Resistant Assessment: Create assignments that verify true student learning in an AI world.

• Student Guidance: Teach students how to use AI ethically as a tutor, not a shortcut.

Lesson 1: Chain-of-Thought & Critical Friend

• Topic: Advanced prompting techniques.

• Activity: Asking AI to “think step-by-step” through a complex topic and using it to “critique” an existing lesson plan to find potential student pitfalls.

Lesson 2: Redesigning Assessment

• Topic: Moving away from traditional “take-home” essays.

• Activity: Designing an assignment where students must “fact-check” an AI-generated text or provide a verbal defense of their work.

Lesson 3: The AI Socratic Tutor

• Topic: Turning AI into a student-facing tool.

• Activity: Creating a prompt that acts as a tutor (asking students questions to lead them to an answer) rather than just giving them the solution.

Lesson 4: Visuals & Multimodal Learning

• Topic: Using AI for more than just text.

• Activity: Generating custom educational diagrams, images, or slide-deck outlines to make lessons more visually engaging.