ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: Leveraging AI to Enhance Students' Learning and Skill Development (Grades 6-12) Presented by Suzanne Kail National Presenter and Acclaimed English/Language Arts Teacher

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff and Administrators

• Practical, ready-to-use strategies and techniques to leverage AI while avoidingits misuse
• Unleash the power of AI to free up your valuable time
• Prepare students to write more effectively and strengthen close reading skills
• Leave with an extensive digital handbook filled with dozens of use-immediately strategies, activities, and tools designed specifically to make the best use of AI to help students become more confident and successful

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Recent innovations in AI technology have created both possibilities and challenges for teachers. Unlock the potential of AI in your ELA classroom while addressing its unique challenges with our NEW seminar taught by award-winning ELA teacher Suzanne Kail who is incorporating AI into her teaching practices every day. This practical session will guide you through the exciting possibilities AI offers your students and help you navigate the complexities it brings to your teaching practice. Learn how to prevent student misuse of AI, identify the most effective AI tools for your goals, and seamlessly integrate technology without losing your personal connection with students.

Discover when to rely on tried-and-true strategies and when to incorporate cutting-edge AI, all while reducing your workload. Join Suzanne to bring your ELA teaching into the 21st century, enhancing your teaching methods and enriching your students' learning experiences. You won't want to miss this highly practical day filled with ways to make the best use of AI tools to strengthen your ELA students' learning and skill.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Eliminate AI Misuse in Your Classroom
   AI opens up exciting new opportunities, but can also bring new challenges and concerns … Explore solutions to potential pitfalls and ethical concerns, and ways to promote the responsible use of AI among students
2. Easily Incorporate High-Impact, Low-Prep Instructional Strategies
   Learn how to achieve high-quality engagement and growth in reading and writing by integrating innovative AI technology into your current curriculum and practice
3. Use AI to Differentiate Your Writing Instruction
   Learn how to use AI to quickly and easily differentiate writing skill practice to better meet the diverse levels of students' writing skills
4. Quickly Provide Students With Instant, More Effective Feedback Using AI
   Learn how to train AI to mirror your feedback and how to teach students to effectively extract and apply high quality feedback using AI technology, reducing your grading time and mental load
5. Strengthen Students' Close Reading Skills
   Discover the best AI tools and assignments to help students more deeply read and analyze texts
6. Improve Classroom Discussions
   Use AI to improve your students' ability to have deeper, more meaningful small group discussions analyzing literature and to help students prepare for more effective whole class discussions
7. Boost Critical Thinking Using AI
   Learn how to create assignments that embrace the use of AI technology to grow students' capacity to think critically and reflect on their own learning
8. Increase Students' Motivation to Write and Revise
   Discover how using AI can motivate your students to develop a sense of ownership of their writing and confidence in themselves as competent writers … Ready-to-use mini-lessons and activities that integrate AI into the revision process
9. Increase Your Productivity and Efficiency
   Use AI tools to improve your efficiency with administrative tasks and lesson planning … Regain valuable time to focus on teaching and your students' learning
10. Receive an Extensive AI for ELA Grades 6-12 Digital Resource Handbook
    Leave with a digital handbook and access to dozens of use-immediately strategies, activities, and tools designed specifically to strengthen students' ELA learning

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Strategies and ready-to-use lessons to eliminate plagiarism and misuse of AI technology
• Practical strategies and models of AI policies for your classroom, department, and building
• Hands-on experience with AI tools, powerful strategies, and how to integrate AI into traditional teaching methods to enhance research-based best practices
• Match AI tools to your lesson's goals to differentiate and target reading and writing skills
• Strategies to dramatically reduce time spent grading while giving meaningful,specific feedback
• How to effectively integrate AI into your existing lessons and units so you don't need to start from scratch
• Strategies for crafting and refining AI prompts, so you get the very best results
• How to use AI to increase student engagement and improve your face-to-face small group and class discussions
• Lessons for training students how to use AI as a reading assistant, as a research assistant, for planning writing tasks, and for extracting and applying feedback from AI
• Use AI to improve essential critical thinking skills
• Specific examples of AI prompts that result in high-quality assessments to gauge student understanding
• Numerous ideas for fostering creativity and innovation in your ELA classroom using AI platforms and applications

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Ever since Open AI launched Chat Gpt in 2022, I've been both concerned and excited about the rapid advancements in generative AI technology. I felt concerned that students would use AI to circumvent learning, but at the same time excited about the potential for rapidly developing AI tools to assist my students (and me!) Launching into learning all I could about the potential for AI to improve my teaching and my students' learning has convinced me that AI is not only here to stay, but that it can be a powerful tool to benefit both my students and me.

One of the biggest challenges I have faced is trying to determine which AI tools to use and when to use them. Over the past few years, the number of AI tools available to teachers has increased exponentially, but trying to find the best tools can feel like an overwhelming task. I have experimented using multiple AI tools in my classroom, and I've drawn on the best research about student learning to determine when to supplement my teaching with AI tools and when to rely on more traditional, research-based teaching strategies.

In our upcoming seminar, we'll discuss the fundamentals of effectively integrating AI into your teaching practice. Instead of providing an exhaustive list of possibilities, we will dive deep into a few of the best AI tools that I have tested with my students in my classroom. We'll explore how these tools can serve as learning partners that foster critical thinking, provide valuable feedback, and offer engaging learning opportunities for students, while also saving time in curriculum design, instructional planning, and assessment for teachers. I'll guide you through integrating technology seamlessly without losing your personal connection with students.

Our focus will be on practical tools and strategies that you can implement immediately while addressing potential challenges and ethical considerations, ensuring that we use AI responsibly and teach our students to do the same.

We'll discuss when to rely on time-tested strategies and when to embrace cutting-edge AI solutions. This balance can enhance student learning while reducing our workload. By the end of our session, I'm confident you'll feel energized, excited, and empowered to bring your ELA teaching into the 21st century, benefiting both you and your students.

I'm excited to share what I've learned and work together to unlock AI's full potential in our classrooms. See you at the seminar!

With warm regards,
Suzanne Kail

P.S. You will learn dozens of specific instructional strategies you can use to make the best use of AI to enhance your Grades 6-12 ELA students' learning and skill development.

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Sample prompts and strategies for using AI tools to generate ELA lessons, units, rubrics, and scoring tools that cater to individual student learning needs
• The latest developments in AI, including emerging technologies and their implications for literacy learning in secondary classrooms
• Protocols to engage ELA learners ethically and thoughtfully with these tools
• DIY guides and tips to help you use AI to streamline your assessment and grading work, provide meaningful and rapid feedback, and more!
• AI tools to help you automate routine administrative tasks, saving you valuable time
• Strategies to foster student innovation and critical thinking in secondary English classrooms using AI-powered tools

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 enhancing their English/Language Arts program.

Consultation Available
Suzanne Kail will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own 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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