Practical AI for Teachers
Get the hours back. Keep the teaching.
This course is for classroom teachers who have heard a lot about AI and have not yet found the version of it that fits a real Tuesday. Kindergarten through twelfth grade, any subject. You do not need to be technical. If you can write an email, you can do everything in here.
What it is
Six short lessons, each built around one job you already do: planning, making materials, giving feedback, handling students who have the same tools you do. Every lesson has real prompt text you can copy, and ends with one thing to try today, in your own classroom, with your own material.
What it is not
It is not a tour of products. Tools change names every few months; the habits in this course do not. It is not a case for replacing anything you do well. The whole point is to hand the machine the parts of the job that were never the teaching, so you have more of yourself left for the parts that are.
How to work through it
In order, one lesson a day if you can. Lesson 2 sets up a reusable context block that every later lesson assumes you have. Keep a document open while you read and paste your prompts into it as you go. By the end you will have a small, personal toolkit rather than a set of notes.
By the end
- you can tell, before you open a tool, whether AI will help with a task or waste your time
- you can set up one AI assistant in five minutes so it knows your grade, subject, and constraints every time
- you can plan a unit with AI as a thinking partner while staying the one who decides
- you can differentiate materials and write feedback at scale without losing your own voice
- you can set a classroom AI policy and write assignments that survive students having it
Lessons
- 01What AI is actually good at in a classroom, and what it is not
A working test for deciding, in ten seconds, whether a task belongs to the machine or to you.
free · 20 min - 02The five-minute setup
Pick one tool, tell it who you are once, and never type your grade level again.
subscribers · 20 min - 03Planning with AI as a thinking partner, not a content generator
How to plan a unit backward with a tool that asks you questions instead of burying you in worksheets.
subscribers · 30 min - 04Differentiation and feedback at scale, in your own voice
Make three versions of every handout and write real feedback for thirty students without sounding like a machine.
subscribers · 30 min - 05Students and AI
A classroom policy you can say in one breath, and assignments that still work when every student has the tool.
subscribers · 25 min - 06A week with AI
A realistic weekly routine, what to hand off, what to keep, and the one habit that keeps it honest.
subscribers · 25 min