Making Best Use of AI Tools to Strengthen Your ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS Instruction (Grades 6-12)

Specifically Designed for Middle and High School English/Language Arts (ELA) Teachers, and Administrators

• Highly practical strategies for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in your grades 6-12 English/Language Arts instruction
• How to make the most of AI tools, platforms, and technologies to improve engagement in your ELA classroom
• Proactive ways to address the ethical issues and concerns related to using AI in secondary ELA classrooms
• Practical tips for streamlining your ELA curriculum planning and lesson design processes

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This seminar presented by outstanding ELA teacher and best-selling author Trevor Aleo is an exciting opportunity to explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and their specific applications in grades 6-12 English/Language Arts classrooms. Examine ways to take full advantage of everything AI has to offer, while taking a proactive, ethical approach to its use. Gain hands-on experience with AI tools perfect for creating engaging lessons and supplementary materials, streamlining administrative tasks, supporting student inquiry, research, and writing, differentiating instruction for more personalized feedback, and much more! All the strategies, templates, and AI tools shared are ones that Trevor has successfully used himself or with his ELA students, so they are classroom tested, and ready to implement or adapt to your specific needs.

Join Trevor for a highly practical day filled with the best ways to use AI tools to strengthen your ELA students’ learning, streamline grading and assessments, enhance your instruction, and improve your productivity.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. The Best AI Tools and Practical Strategies for ELA Instruction

   Discover essential and practical ways to harness AI tools in your grades 6-12 English/Language Arts classroom … Learn the best, most useful AI tools for increasing your ELA students’ engagement and learning while increasing your own productivity

2. Create and Curate Highly Relevant and Engaging Lessons

   Spark your students’ interests and motivation with AI, curating compelling ELA content and quickly differentiating it to meet their unique learning needs … Construct fun, highly engaging learning opportunities with just a few clicks

3. Outsource Administrative Work and Decrease Time Spent on Everyday Tasks

   Put AI to work for you as you streamline your workflow using adaptable templates, plugin tools, and other helpful strategies that will cut down the time you spend each day on administrative work … Here’s how!

4. Develop AI-Created Targeted Lessons, Mentor Texts, and Sentence Frames

   Use AI to enhance your writing instruction, providing your student writers with more targeted intervention … Explore ways you can use AI to plan lessons and design resources to support student writers at all levels

5. AI Tools to Streamline ELA Research and Communication Processes

   Examine how AI tools and platforms can help your students be better informed researchers and more effective communicators … Help students recognize how these tools can allow them to dig deeper into topics, concepts, and texts they love

6. Use AI to Differentiate Your Instruction for Diverse Learners

   Learn strategies to quickly and easily differentiate your ELA content, processes, and learning products to build on your students’ strengths and address their unique needs … Quickly customize and strengthen your existing curriculum using AI

7. Develop a Proactive Plan to Ensure Your Students Ethically Use AI

   Respond to the rise of AI by helping students become empowered, proactive, and ethical users … Discover effective ways you can foster open and honest conversations about AI with your students

8. Use AI to Streamline Assessment Without Losing a Human Touch

   Expand the ways you provide feedback to students by integrating AI tools that help with grammar, usage, and mechanics … Harness AI-driven assessment to better guide your ELA instruction and provide students with greater support

9. Provide Greater Support for ELL Students in English/Language Arts

   Use AI to quickly create just-right supports for English Learners (ELs) … Easily generate customized texts to meet ELs at their levels, leverage AI as a translation tool, and get them communicating quickly and coherently – with you and others

10. Extensive “AI in ELA” Digital Resource Handbook and Special Online Access

    You’ll receive an extensive digital resource handbook packed with practical ideas, strategies, and tools specifically designed to help you increase your ELA students’ learning and enhance your own productivity … Receive special online access to Trevor’s Google Drive full of additional AI resources for ELA

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Practical strategies and resources for making the best use of AI – specifically for grades 6-12 English/Language Arts teachers
• Powerful and flexible AI tools, prompts, and platforms that will strengthen your ELA instruction and improve student learning
• Ways to infuse AI into your current lessons and units to enhance them without “reinventing the wheel”
• Timesaving AI-driven tips and strategies to improve your productivity and minimize time spent on administrative tasks
• Engaging lesson ideas that use AI to strengthen creativity, critical thinking, and authentic forms of communication in your classroom
• Tips and strategies to save valuable time using AI to create and curate supplemental material and paired texts
• How to help students use AI as a powerful thought partner, sounding board, and research assistant
• Ways students can use AI to generate ideas and outlines for narrative, argumentative, and analytical writing
• Approaches to help students be critical consumers of media in the age of AI
• Creative ways students can use AI to remix their writing into alternative forms of media
• Methods for vetting and detecting AI-created content from generative AI tools students encounter online
• How to better support ELLs, using AI to rewrite and reconfigure information into their first language
• AI prompts that allow you to easily recontextualize reading, rubrics, and supplementary materials for varying grade levels, reading levels, and audiences

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