AI Skills Every Education Professional Needs
Education professionals across every role — classroom teachers, lecturers, tutors, school leaders, administrators, corporate trainers, learning designers, and support staff — who want a practical, education-specific AI foundation. It assumes no technical background: if you can write a lesson plan, you can write a prompt.
Turn a 90-minute lesson plan into a 25-minute one, and a weekend of report-writing into an afternoon — reclaiming hours every week for the parts of teaching only you can do.
Write structured prompts with PRISM that produce genuinely usable first drafts of lesson plans, resources, and learner feedback — not the generic output you get from typing a one-line request.
Cut feedback on a set of assignments from three hours to about forty-five minutes while keeping it specific, fair, and in your own voice.
Evaluate every AI output against education-specific criteria with TRUST, so nothing reaches your learners until you have checked it for accuracy, bias, and fit.
Protect learner data and uphold academic integrity using the Educator AI Safety Protocol — knowing exactly what is safe to put into a prompt and what must never leave your control.
Build a sustainable AI habit with the 30-Day Educator AI Starter, so the time savings stick instead of fading after the first busy week.
Module by module, in the order they are assigned.
AI adoption is already reshaping preparation, feedback, learner support, and administration, so educators need a grounded way to use it while keeping judgement. By the end, you can locate your readiness stage, map tasks to AI capability, spot learner-facing risks, and choose safe starting tasks.
Prompting AI as an educator turns vague requests into professional briefs for planning, differentiation, resources, communication, and assessment drafts. By the end, learners apply PRISM, use the Educator Prompt Toolkit, check outputs with TRUST, refine through the thought-partner loop, and keep pedagogical ownership.
AI-assisted assessment and feedback help educators reduce repetitive writing while protecting validity, fairness, alignment, and learner fit. By the end, you can draft rubrics, question banks, marking criteria, and formative comments, apply TRUST, check bias and ambiguity, and design tasks that reveal thinking with AI available.
Communication and administration tasks drain educator attention because the same facts must be reshaped for learners, families, colleagues, leaders, and formal records. By the end, you can use AI to draft from verified notes, tune register with PRISM, adapt translation and accessibility, and protect learner data through review.
AI safety, ethics, and academic integrity set the guardrails educators need when AI touches learner data, assessment materials, institutional information, and the example learners see. By the end, you can run the Educator AI Safety Protocol, classify data by tier, explain a principled integrity stance, and use AI for professional growth.
AI across education sectors connects the shared plan, deliver, assess, reflect cycle to the rulebooks around schools, higher education, vocational learning, and corporate training. By the end, you can apply a sector lens, choose an AI+ route, and build a personalised starter plan with trackable quick wins.
The course closes with a timed final exam with a pass mark and a limited number of attempts. A pass issues a PDF certificate with its own serial, in the name of the Straits Institute for Applied AI. Cohort progress, at-risk learners and a CSV export are in the admin console throughout.
No. The course assumes no prior technical knowledge and starts from where you are. As the book puts it: if you can write a lesson plan, you can write a prompt.
No. Throughout the course AI is treated as a thought partner for pedagogy, never a replacement for it — a fast colleague that drafts and suggests while you stay the professional who decides. It is a tool to help you, not replace you.
Yes, when you follow the rules the course teaches. The Educator AI Safety Protocol and the practice of de-identifying anything you enter into a prompt show you exactly what is safe to share and what must never leave your control.
The course treats academic integrity as a position you can defend, not a slogan. You learn the guardrails that make AI's speed usable in a professional setting and how to design assessment and use AI in ways that protect, rather than erode, integrity.
The course is tool-agnostic — the skills work with any mainstream AI assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot, all of which are available from a laptop or phone. You apply what you learn in whichever tool your institution already allows.
Six self-paced video modules of about 60 minutes each — roughly six hours in total — that you can work through in your own time and revisit whenever you need to.
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