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Teaching AI Across the Transition Year Programme

Set clear rules for AI in your Transition Year class and teach students to use it well.

  • 9 hours
  • 11 short lessons
  • Online, at your own pace
  • Certificate
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About this course

A course for Transition Year teachers and coordinators on AI in the TY classroom, whatever your own experience of it. It starts with what students actually use and what they don't tell you, then helps you draft a classroom AI policy and agree a class charter with your students. You design tasks that AI cannot simply do, decide which tasks can welcome it, and assess project work through process, evidence and disclosure rather than detection tools. It covers teaching students about hallucination, bias and deepfakes without hype or doom, and you finish with an AI plan for your TY year that links across subjects.

What you will be able to do

By the end you will be able to set clear AI rules with your TY class, design tasks and assessment that still work when students have AI, teach students to check and question AI output, and plan AI across your Transition Year programme.

What's in the course

11 lessons, 40 to 45 minutes each. Take them in order, whenever suits you.

Module 1 · 2 lessons
Orientation, the TY AI Landscape and Your Role

Two lessons that establish three things: an honest map of where you are starting from (the confidence audit); a working understanding of what TY students actually do with AI today and what the NCCA TY Programme Statement asks of you; and a productive mindset for teaching a topic that is moving faster than any teacher can keep up with on their own.
  1. 1 Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset for AI Free preview 40 min
  2. 2 The TY AI Landscape: What Students Actually Use and What They Don't Tell You 40 min
Module 2 · 2 lessons
Setting Sensible Conditions: Policy and Charter

Two lessons that build the conditions for everything else to work: a sensible classroom AI use policy that you can actually enforce, and a Class AI Charter co-designed with your students so that the rules feel like theirs, not a pasted-in school document. These two artifacts become the foundation Modules 3, 4 and 5 build on.
  1. 3 Drafting an AI Use Policy for Your TY Classroom 40 min
  2. 4 Co-designing a Class AI Charter with Your Students 40 min
Module 3 · 3 lessons
Designing Ai-aware Tasks and Assessment

Three lessons covering the practical assessment-design problem at the heart of TY AI delivery: which tasks should be designed so AI cannot easily do them (AI-robust), which should deliberately invite AI use as part of the learning (AI-friendly), why detection tools are not the answer, and how to assess TY projects in a portfolio-led, disclosure-led culture.
  1. 5 Designing Tasks That Are Ai-robust, and Knowing Which to Leave Ai-friendly 40 min
  2. 6 Spotting AI-Generated Work, and Why Detection Tools Aren't the Answer 40 min
  3. 7 Ai-aware Assessment for TY Projects: Process, Evidence, Disclosure 40 min
Module 4 · 2 lessons
Critical Literacy: Teaching About AI Output

Two lessons covering the content TY students most need from you: how to evaluate AI output critically (hallucination, training-data bias, missing sources, image and audio deepfakes) and how to talk to TY students about AI in a way that is neither breathless hype nor doom-scroll fear.
  1. 8 Hallucination, Bias, Sources and Deepfakes 40 min
  2. 9 Talking to Students About AI Without Hype or Doom 40 min
Module 5 · 2 lessons
Cross-subject Coherence and Year Plan

Two lessons that close the course. The first treats AI literacy as a cross-curricular project, connecting the conversation a student has in Exploring AI (or in your subject-embedded module) to what their other TY teachers say. The second synthesises everything into your TY AI Year Plan and the final reflection.
  1. 10 Cross-subject Coherence and Ty's Personal-growth Goals 45 min
  2. 11 Your TY AI Year Plan and Final Reflection 40 min

What you get

A certificateFor 9 hours of professional learning, when you finish.
Your own portfolioEverything you write in the course collects in one place to keep.
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11 short lessons, at your own pace, with a certificate at the end.

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