Using AI to plan, reflect and teach with purpose

We know that AI cannot replace great teaching. However, it can make great teaching more sustainable, creative, and reflective.

Welcome to the tools for teacher section! This is a practical space designed to help educators meaningfully integrate generative AI into their everyday classroom practice. Whether you are brand new to AI or already experimenting (YAY!), this section offers support grounded in concept-based inquiry, ethical use, and student centred pedagogy.

In this space, AI is not treated as a shortcut to the answer (although sometimes it can feel like cheating), rather it is a thinking partner that can help us do what we do best: plan powerful learning, foster curiosity, and nurture critical thinkers.

What you’ll find in this section

• AI as a thinking partner (not an answer machine)
  • shift from answer-getting to idea-growing
  • teach students to use AI as a brainstorming buddy, rather than a crutch
  • model metacognition and reflective questioning alongside AI use

• Differentiation
  • adapt texts, assignments, and questions with the support of AI
  • personalize learning paths without doubling your workload
  • scaffold content for diverse learners – quickly and thoughtfully

• Feedback generation
  • generate formative feedback starts
  • free up time for relationship building while providing rubric specific feedback

• Lesson planning with AI
  • save time while deepening student thinking
  • using AI to brainstorm guiding questions, design tasks, align curriculum and more

• Rubric creation
  • draft and revise task specific rubrics that align with learning goals or IB/MYP criteria

• Using AI to support inquiry and reflection
  • spark big questions, generate discussion prompts, and explore conceptual theme
  • guide students in reflecting on not only what they learn but how they learn with AI
  • encourage ethical, reflective, and intentional use of AI tools

Who is this for?

Designed for inquiry-driven educators looking to embed AI in purposeful, principled ways, IB educators who want to align AI use with concepts, contexts, and criteria, busy classroom teachers who want practical tools, not more theory, and anyone who believes that technology should enhance and never replace good pedagogy.

Use these tools and ideas as a starting point, and adapt them to your voice, your classroom and your context.

The integration of AI in education is still evolving and so is this work. Like you – I am learning every day. These tools and built from the knowledge I have gained from research, classroom practice, and reflection – I am always open to feedback, revisions, and collaboration.