AI Teaching Skills: Make your own Personalised AI Teaching Assistant

In today’s diverse classrooms, teachers often juggle numerous responsibilities and face the challenge of meeting the varied needs of their students. Imagine having a dedicated AI teaching assistant, your very own sidekick, supporting you both in the classroom and at home! This powerful tool can help streamline your lesson planning, adapt activities, and even create materials, all at no extra cost. With an AI assistant, you can focus more on what matters: engaging with your students and enhancing their learning experience.

However, many educators still struggle with:

-Differentiating tasks for students of varying proficiency levels

-Ensuring quiet students participate in speaking activities

-Finding time to create scaffolding materials that cater to all learners

Workshop Details

🗓 Date & Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm (HKT), Thursday 11 December

🎟 Price: HK$200

🎓 Certificate: Digital certificate for 1.5 PD hours included

Bonuses

• Slides PDF
• AI Prompt Cheat-Sheet

Skills You'll Gain

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the confidence and tools to:

- 🌟 Create Effective AI-Driven Prompts

Develop prompts to adapt speaking tasks for diverse student levels.

- 📚 Implement Differentiation Strategies

Identify and assign roles for speaking tasks that cater to both high achievers and those needing extra support.

- 🗣️ Engage All Students

Use innovative methods to keep quieter students active and involved, ensuring everyone has a chance to shine.

- 🚀 Adapt Instruction Seamlessly

Learn how to simplify instructions and add extensions effortlessly, making lessons more inclusive and dynamic.

Questions? Contact Ryan or Christina at events@englishforasia.com

This workshop is a supplemtary session from the popular online course AI for Language Teaching.

"Since joining the AI course I've saved at least 2 hours every week on my lesson planning and prep. I love Ross's workshops, they are clear, easy to follow and very practical for my teaching." - J. Wong (Hong Kong)

"I thought using AI would be daunting as I'm not a techy person. But after joining the course, I've been able to use AI to help plan lessons, design activities, and even make pictures for my lessons." - Matilda (Hong Kong)

For the best experience, attendees should have:

• a computer or ipad style device (a phone will also work)

• stable internet access

• a headset with microphone
• a webcam

Trainer: Ross Thorburn

Ross Thorburn is a teacher trainer, author, and materials writer based in Shanghai. He specializes in reading pedagogy, communicative task design, and practical uses of AI in ELT. He delivers training across Asia, develops teacher education courses, and writes books and resources on teaching reading and test preparation, business English, and AI. His work combines classroom experience with innovative approaches to materials development. Ross is a tutor on the online course AI for Language Teaching.