Making Best Use of AI Tools to Strengthen Your ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS Instruction (Grades 6-12) Presented by Trevor Aleo Outstanding ELA Teacher, Author, and National Presenter

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

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Despite my being a tech-loving ELA teacher, ChatGPT felt like it came out of nowhere! In the wake of COVID, declining student engagement, and growing questions about technology's role in education, many teachers are understandably leery about yet another paradigm shift. Learning how to harness these tools, however, can help us re-center the human parts of our profession that brought us to the ELA classroom in the first place.

I can't wait to share all the ways I've leveraged generative AI to be a more creative planner, more efficient communicator, and overall better ELA teacher. Whether you're an experienced enthusiast looking to go deeper or a hesitant AI newbie trying to figure things out, this seminar will leave you with a ton of great ideas, tools, and strategies you can bring back and use right away in your classroom.

I have designed this seminar specifically based on my own personal use of AI tools in my secondary English/Language Arts classroom. Our day together will be full of plenty of real-world ELA examples and anecdotes to support the myriad of great AI tools I will share. Though I'm certainly a believer in AI's potential for transformative work, we'll also devote time exploring how we can take a proactive approach to addressing ethical concerns with the use of AI in secondary ELA classrooms.

I look forward to sharing the best AI tools and strategies you can easily use the very next day in your ELA classroom to strengthen your instruction and save time, while increasing your students' engagement and learning. I cannot wait for you to see and experience these incredible tools and strategies firsthand!

Sincerely,
Trevor Aleo

P.S. As a current ELA teacher, I'm uniquely positioned to speak about the potential benefits and pitfalls to avoid. Join me for a fun, informative, and practical day on AI in the ELA classroom!

Who Should Attend

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

About BER Live Online Events

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Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive AI in the ELA Classroom Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Sample prompts, templates, and strategies for using AI to create ELA units, rubrics, one-pagers, and lesson plans that increase student creativity and critical thinking
• AI tools perfect for ELA teachers that help streamline workflows, increase productivity, and enhance your planning creativity
• Protocols and policies to help students understand what ethical uses of AI look like
• Adaptable frameworks and prompts you can tailor to your individual ELA context and classroom

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of AI tools in secondary ELA classrooms.

Consultation Available
Trevor Aleo will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own ELA program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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