AI in Adult Education
Karen Gowlett is a Microsoft Innovator Educator and winner of a Learning in the Workplace award 2022 for supporting teaching staff.
The Scenario
Karen Gowlett is a Teaching and Learning Mentor in an ACL provision. She is a Microsoft Innovator Educator and winner of a Learning in the Workplace award 2022 for supporting teaching staff. Karen teaches Let’s Get Digital for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), blending English language teaching with digital skills and learning digital terminology.
Karen is always keen to support tutors to find and practise the right digital technology for their learners and was therefore interested in trying TeacherMatic. She used the Scheme of Work (SoW) generator to produce a good first draft for a new tutor to use as a basis for her own. The tutor finalised the generated SoW which was then accepted by her curriculum lead.
Institution Name
Adult Community Learning
Roles
Teacher Trainer
Name
Karen Gowlett
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‘The TeacherMatic AI was so incredibly helpful, it's the catalyst I needed to give me the starting point for writing lessons and course outlines, it helped me successfully deliver a course outline proposal. Without the AI starting me off I would not have been able to write such a concise framework of language to be able to explain my outline, I wish I had access to this AI for every course I had to write to give me a springboard to writing my sessions’
The new teacher went on to say Obviously, I needed to edit the generated output, changing the phrasing and some of the language, but as a framework structure especially for novice tutors like me it was amazing!
Karen’s comment was ‘What I liked about using the SoW Generator, as a teaching and learning mentor, was the ability to give a new tutor a starting point which worked for her.’
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