The programme
Thirteen units, self-paced online.
Thirteen units, self-paced online, with optional live online sessions.
Every lesson works fully without a live session.
What it costs you in time
Staff work through the online lessons in their own time. Optional live online sessions are booked by the school.
| Where the time goes | Time | Released or not |
|---|---|---|
| Self-paced online lessons, Units 1 to 13 (59 lessons) | In each teacher's own time | Not released |
| Optional live online sessions | Booked by the school | School's choice |
| A start check and an end check for each unit | A few minutes per check | Not released |
| Total across the year | Self-paced online | Optional live online sessions: school’s choice |
Foundations
Units 1 to 7, self-paced online. What education is for, how AI works, the evidence, ethics and policy.
What Education Is For, and Where AI Fits
3 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
How AI Actually Works
10 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Checking Claims
4 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Cognitive Effects of AI on Pupils' Learning
5 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Ethics I: Data, Money and Rights
3 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Ethics II: Equity, Bias and Agency
3 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
World Legislation and Policy
4 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Practice
Units 8 to 13, self-paced online. Your own teaching, integrity, safeguarding, inclusion and saying no.
AI in Teaching Toolkit
4 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Your Own Use: Planning, Feedback and Marking
5 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Misuse and Academic Integrity
5 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Safeguarding: The Vulnerable Pupil
5 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
SEND, EAL and Inclusion
4 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
Saying No, Well
4 lessons, self-paced online.
Modes: Guided reading, Short explainer
How units are delivered
Every unit page states which of these it uses.
Route one
Self-paced online
- Guided reading
- Short explainer
- Artefact build
The core of the programme. Every member of staff learns in their own time, and every lesson works fully on its own.
Route two
Optional live online sessions
- Live workshop
- Rehearsal
- Structured disagreement
- Case clinic
Facilitated online sessions a school can book to support the self-paced lessons. They are optional.
Route three
Between
- Teach-back
- Async thread
- Claim note
What carries a unit into the weeks that follow it.
Route four
Self-directed
- Annotated source library
Read at your own pace, annotated so you can see what each source does and does not show.
What the year produces, and how it is measured
A start check and an end check for each unit. Thirteen units, self-paced online, with optional live online sessions.
| When | What it is |
|---|---|
| Start check | a few understanding questions and self-review statements |
| End check | a few understanding questions and self-review statements, plus one deliverable check |
The deliverable check is factual and never attitudinal: do you now have X, yes, partly or no. It never asks whether something was useful.