Teachers using AI: workflows, apps, and opportunities

AI tools are now part of every teacher's working week, whether they planned for it or not. Used well, they buy back time and brain space. Used carelessly, they produce the kind of generic, slightly-off output that has become known as AI slop: content that looks fine but adds little, and sometimes actively misleads. The difference between the two outcomes is almost entirely down to how the teacher uses the tools.

The first of two 90-minute sessions sets the foundations. Richard walks you through the current AI tools landscape for teachers, how to choose between them for different jobs, and the prompting habits that consistently produce useful work rather than slop, drawing on his own day-to-day use across DP Geography, ESS, and TOK planning.

The second session moves into specific teacher workflows: preparing lessons faster without losing your voice, brainstorming and developing ideas with AI as a thinking partner, and getting on top of the paperwork side of teaching (comments, reports, communications) in ways that stay personal rather than templated.

Leave with a practical AI toolkit, a clear sense of what is worth doing and what is not, and the productivity gains that give you back time and brain space across the week.