“Everyone says AI will save me hours. I don’t know what to trust it with.”
The course: AI Tools for Planning and Feedback: What Helps and What Doesn’t
Primary and secondary Sharpening the craft
What you will be able to do
- Draft resources faster and still verify them against your subject knowledge
- Spot confident-sounding errors before they reach a pupil
- Set sensible boundaries for pupil use of AI tools in your classroom
The programme, unit by unit
39 lessons in 6 units, 7 h 48 min in all. Lessons run about 12 minutes each, so you can fit one into a free period.
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What these tools are, and are not
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Planning and resource drafting
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Checking what comes back
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Feedback and marking support
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Data, safeguarding and school policy
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Pupils using AI
What is in the course
Streamed video lessons, watched online.
- Screen-recorded examples of planning, resource creation and feedback drafting
- Checklists for accuracy, bias and age-appropriateness
- Guidance on pupil data and what never to paste into a tool
- Practice tasks you complete with any tool you already use
Who it’s for
Teachers and subject leads who want a practical, cautious starting point, whichever tool their school allows.
Primary and secondary teaching.
What this course is not
- An accredited qualification. It is professional development, not an award from an exam board or a university.
- Live teaching. There is no live tutor and no timetable. You press play when you are ready.
- Marked or assessed. Nobody marks your work. Practice tasks are for your own planning and reflection.
- A replacement for your school. It does not replace your school's own induction, or a SENCo's advice about a pupil.
- Something to download. Everything is streamed online. There are no files to keep.
Watch it in your week
About 3 weeks at 3 hours a week
The lessons add up to 7 h 48 min, which is 7.8 hours. Give it 3 hours a week and 7.8 ÷ 3 = 2.6, rounded up to 3 weeks. That is about 15 lessons a week.
You have 24 months of access, so you can stop for a busy half-term and pick up where you left off.
- 1 hour a week8 weeks
- 2 hours a week4 weeks
- 3 hours a weekour suggestion3 weeks
- 5 hours a week2 weeks
Same shelf
More on Sharpening the craft
- Questioning and Checking for Understanding “I ask ‘does everyone get it?’ and a few hands go up. I still don’t know who doesn’t.”
- Feedback Without the Marking Mountain “I spend my Sunday writing comments that nobody reads.”
- Planning a Sequence of Lessons “I can plan a good lesson. Planning a good half-term is another matter.”