Here's a quick introduction to the course — about a minute and a half on what it covers and how it works. It's worth a watch before you begin.
If you are arriving at this course because AI landed on your desk faster than you expected, you are in the right place. Welcome to Teaching AI Across the Transition Year Programme. Whether you deliver Coding Ireland's Exploring Artificial Intelligence course directly, thread AI through your own subject module, or coordinate the conversation across a whole TY year group, this course is built for you.
This opening lesson does three things. It maps the full course arc so you can see where you are headed. It establishes an honest baseline of your current confidence through the Confidence Audit. And it introduces the idea that everything else rests on: the Lead Learner mindset for AI. By the end you will have your first portfolio entries and a clearer sense of the stance you want to take with your students.
Throughout this course you build a single running document called your Professional Learning Portfolio. It collects every artifact you produce: your Confidence Audit, your written reflections, and the draft policies, task designs and plans from the later modules. Submissions you mark as complete receive individual tutor feedback, and at the end the whole portfolio downloads as one file you can keep for your records. It also serves as a Cosán-aligned record of your CPD, Cosán being the Teaching Council's national framework for teachers' learning. By the close of today you will have your first two entries in it: your baseline audit and your first reflection.
Watch this presentation for an honest framing of who teaches TY AI literacy in Ireland today, a preview of the five modules, and an introduction to the mindset that runs through all of them.
Where This Course Is Headed and Why
Rate your current confidence honestly. There are no right answers, and lower ratings simply help you see where the course can make the biggest difference.
This survey establishes your starting point across the six areas this course develops. You will retake these exact six statements at the end of the course, so this is the baseline against which you'll measure your distance travelled. Your ratings save to your Professional Learning Portfolio as your first entry.
Watch this worked example of a teacher using an AI assistant openly with a TY class. Notice the moment the assistant gets something wrong, how the teacher confirms it, and how the failure becomes the most valuable part of the lesson.
When the Assistant Gets It Wrong
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