Teachers move beyond AI basics to more sophisticated instructional uses
- 3 hours ago
- 1 min read
EDUCATION WEEK — About 50 teachers came together here on March 18 to learn to develop “agentic” AI tools, autonomous software systems that can do more complex, multi-step tasks that involve an element of reasoning to support teachers across subjects, grades, or platforms.
For Jing Liang Guan, a science teacher at the Brooklyn Science and Engineering Academy, this means the difference between a tool that can create a lesson plan and one that can help him stress-test his lessons for content gaps and confusing wording, and help him hone his teaching approach over time.
The New York City training is part of the National Academy for AI Instruction, a five-year, $23 million partnership between the American Federation of Teachers and three of the largest AI developers—Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI—to train 400,000 teachers on how to use the technology in the classroom. The academy uses teachers, with limited support from developers, to train other teachers in how to use AI to improve instruction.
Read the full story | EDUCATION WEEK
