GenAI
Creating classrooms where teachers use GenAI effectively and ethically, and students use it purposefully yet sparingly.
Generative Artificial Intelligence has changed the way the world works. Our professional learning helps teachers understand the benefits and limitations for teaching practice, alongside implications for student learning.
Our GenAI professional learning workshops are designed to be bespoke for each school context and pitched at levels relevant for your school leaders, teachers, education support staff and students.
Schools are able to select from topics including:
How GenAI works
Prompt and process engineering
Ethical GenAI use
Chatbot development
Differentiation and data analysis
Feedback and assessment
Learning friction
Change management and policy development
Workshops are available from one hour sessions through to full day sessions.
Schools are also able to put their school leaders, teachers and students through one, or all, of our standard workshop offerings outlined below.
Teacher workshops
Unlock the power of Generative AI to elevate teaching practice and reimagine student learning.
Teachers are equipped with the knowledge and practical skills to harness GenAI as a powerful tool to transform teaching, learning, and assessment.
Teachers explore how GenAI works, its ethical implications, and build foundational skills in prompt engineering. Develop strategies to use GenAI for designing and adapting high-quality teaching resources, whilst ensuring teacher professional judgement remains central.
Teachers consider how GenAI can foster interdisciplinary thinking, connect ideas across subject areas, design tasks that solve real-world problems, and develop digital literacy skills across the curriculum.
Transforming practice with GenAI
GenAI for differentiation and data analysis
Data is most impactful when it leads to action.
Teachers develop skills in context rich prompting and utilise a number of different GenAI tools to support differentiated teaching practice in the classroom.
Teachers explore how GenAI can support the analysis of student data to inform differentiated planning and targeted teaching interventions at a student’s point of need.
Teachers are supported to identify patterns, trends, and needs within assessment and observational data, and then use GenAI tools to adapt lessons, units of work and assessments accordingly.
GenAI and the assessment revolution
GenAI has changed the way we need to assess. Assessment is no longer just a measure of learning it should be the driver of it.
Teachers explore how GenAI is reshaping the way we need design, deliver, and respond to assessment.
Grounded in the shift from assessment of learning to assessment for learning, this session introduces practical ways to integrate GenAI tools to personalise feedback, generate formative assessment tasks, and support student reflection.
Teachers will also engage with a GenAI Assessment Scale. A framework for evaluating how AI can be used ethically and effectively across different stages and levels of the assessment process.
School leader workshops
Confident leadership of GenAI starts with understanding its implications for education.
School leaders develop a clear, working understanding of what GenAI is, how it works, and what it means for teaching and learning. Cutting through the hype to make informed, confident decisions.
This session demystifies the technology behind GenAI and unpacks both its genuine benefits and its real limitations for schools. Leaders explore how GenAI is reshaping pedagogy, assessment, and the day-to-day work of teachers, and what this means for their strategic priorities.
Leaders leave with the shared language and conceptual grounding needed to lead whole-school conversations, evaluate tools and claims critically, and set a direction that is ambitious yet realistic for their context.
Leading with clarity: Building strategic understanding of GenAI
The goal isn't more GenAI or less, it's the right use, by the right people, for the right reasons.
School leaders explore how to strike the critical balance at the heart of a healthy GenAI culture. Teachers using GenAI effectively and ethically to amplify their practice, while students use it purposefully yet sparingly to protect the thinking that drives real learning.
This session helps leaders define clear, defensible expectations for staff and student use, and translate them into a coherent whole-school approach. Leaders consider where GenAI genuinely adds value, where it risks eroding learning, and how to communicate the difference to staff.
Leaders develop practical strategies for policy, professional learning, and change management, ensuring GenAI is adopted in ways that lift teacher capacity without undercutting student learning.
Getting the balance right: Leading effective and ethical GenAI use
Protecting what matters: Leading assessment in a GenAI world
GenAI means authenticating assessment has become something schools have to design for.
School leaders explore how to safeguard academic integrity and maintain trustworthy assessment practices in a landscape where GenAI is readily available to every student.
Grounded in the shift toward assessment for learning, this session examines how assessment design, moderation, and verification practices need to evolve to remain valid and fair. Leaders engage with frameworks for reasoning about where and how GenAI use is appropriate across the assessment process.
Leaders leave equipped to lead a considered, whole-school response. One that upholds academic integrity, supports teachers to assess with confidence, and keeps the focus on genuine student learning opportunities.
Student workshops
If GenAI does the hard part for you, you miss the part where you actually learn.
Students explore the idea of learning friction. The productive struggle that builds real understanding and why holding onto it matters more than ever in a GenAI world.
Students discover how offloading their thinking to GenAI can feel efficient in the moment but quietly short-circuit the effort that leads to lasting learning, memory, and skill. They learn to recognise the difference between GenAI as a shortcut and GenAI as a support.
Students develop practical strategies for using GenAI purposefully yet sparingly, knowing when to lean on it, when to switch it off, and how to stay in control of their own learning.
Embracing the struggle: Why learning friction matters
Designing chatbots that support learning
The best GenAI tool isn't one that gives you answers, it's one that helps you think.
Students learn to design and build their own chatbots as genuine learning companions. Tools that quiz them, explain concepts, and support their study without simply handing over the answer.
Students learn how chatbots work and put that knowledge into practice by creating a custom chatbot tool for a subject they’re studying. Along the way, they learn helpful the prompting and process techniques that get the most out of GenAI tools.
Students leave with a working chatbot of their own and a clearer sense of how to shape GenAI into a tool that strengthens their learning rather than replaces it.
Using GenAI with integrity: Navigating the ethics
Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
Students explore the ethical questions that come with GenAI use and build the judgement to make good decisions when there isn't a rule for every situation.
Students unpack real dilemmas they and the world face: what counts as honest use, how to acknowledge GenAI, and why issues like bias, accuracy, and privacy matter. Through real-world scenarios and open discussion, students weigh up where GenAI use is fair and appropriate, and why their data privacy is important.
Students gain with the confidence to use GenAI honestly and responsibly, and to explain and stand behind the choices they make.