This event will be presented as a Live Online Event.

Using AI Tools to Increase ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS Learning and Enhance Teacher Productivity (Grades 6-12)

Presented by Angela Stockman
Outstanding ELA Teacher, International Presenter and Author

SpecificallyDesigned

How to make best use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance student engagement and learning in secondary English/Language Arts (ELA)
Hands-on experience with AI tools, powerful strategies, and protocols perfect for secondary ELA teachers
Pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns with the use of AI-powered tools and resources in the ELA classroom
Highly practical ways you can increase your teacher productivity using AI

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This NEW seminar presented by award-winning ELA teacher and author Angela Stockman is an exciting opportunity for grades 6-12 English/Language Arts educators to explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and their specific applications in ELA education. Strengthen your curriculum, assessment, and planning approaches using AI. Explore sophisticated ways to easily use AI to craft quality feedback, differentiate instruction, and engage yourself and your students in meaningful research. Discover the potential of AI to greatly enhance the way you teach and support your ELA students. Learn how to prompt AI tools more effectively, thread your exchanges, conduct productive inquiry and analysis work, and scaffold your ELA learners toward greater success.

Join Angela for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your ELA students' learning, streamline grading and assessments, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Make Best Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in English/Language Arts (ELA)
Discover essential and practical ways to harness AI tools in your grades 6-12 ELA classroom … Explore the best, most useful AI tools for increasing your ELA students' engagement and learning while increasing your own productivity
Quickly Create Engaging ELA Lessons With Al
Spark your students' interests and motivation with AI, curating compelling ELA content and quickly differentiating it to meet their unique learning needs … Here's how!
Swiftly Plan Narrative, Argument, and Research and Information Writing Tasks
Plugging quality questions into AI can return phenomenal results … Scoop up hundreds of quality AI prompts, aligned to specific genres, forms, and common ELA standards, so that you're never left wondering what to ask AI
Craft Timely, Criteria-Specific Feedback That Moves ELA Learners Forward
Learn how to input students' work and your success criteria, and watch AI generate targeted, actionable feedback in learner-friendly language … Discover ways AI can help you generate and refine your own high-quality feedback, too
Use AI to Differentiate Your Instruction to Better Support 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
Create Learning Progressions That Scaffold ELA Learning Using AI
Use AI to better meet your ELA learners right where they are with easy-to-create learning progressions … Help students set specific, achievable goals, monitor their progress, and take a scaffolded pathway to strengthen their ELA learning
Help Students Utilize AI as a Powerful Research Assistant
Empower your ELA students to leverage AI to engage in thoughtful inquiry work … Teach students how to use AI to learn more and communicate about the specific topics, concepts, ideas, and skills that fascinate them
Increase Support for Your ELLs in English/Language Arts
Use AI to quickly create just-right supports for English Language Learners (ELLs) … Easily generate customized texts to meet ELLs at their levels, leverage AI as a translation tool, and get them communicating quickly and coherently – with you and others
Avoid and Address Potential Pitfalls and Ethical Concerns
AI opens exciting new opportunities, but it also raises valid concerns … Explore ways to promote the responsible use of AI in your English/Language Arts classroom
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 Angela's Google Drive full of additional AI resources for ELA

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

The best, most useful AI tools to enhance your instruction and productivity, and increase your students' ELA learning
How to readily integrate AI into your existing lessons and units so you don't need to start from scratch
Strategies for asking AI the best questions, so you get the very best results to generate ELA lessons, units, assessments, and feedback frames
Ways to eliminate tedious planning, using AI prompts aligned to specific genres, forms, and common ELA standards so you can enjoy being creative again
How to easily generate high quality rubrics and scoring tools using AI to better align assignments and increase student learning
Methods for using AI to streamline administrative tasks like strategic planning, crafting sensitive email replies, notes home, and documenting evidence of learning
Approaches to help you differentiate your instruction rapidly and easily to better meet the needs of your unique learners
Strategies to better support struggling and special needs students in your ELA classroom using AI-generated instructional interventions
AI approaches that build student stamina for reading and writing, strengthen confidence and sharpen comprehension and compositional skills
Tools that turn AI into an administrative assistant to streamline your grading, communication, curriculum sequencing, pacing, and documentation work
Strategies to use AI as an audience, so adolescent writers can see how readers besides their teacher, classmates, family, or friends might interpret their work
AI tools to quickly catch flaws in student work that you might have otherwise overlooked

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Had anyone told me when I became an English teacher that I would be using Artificial Intelligence tools to level-up my practice many years later I wouldn't have believed them. But as I told my students just yesterday, the incredible thing about being a teacher is that it's never boring and always evolving!

I am so excited to share the best of what I've learned about maximizing the potential of AI as an English teacher. I've been using AI extensively, consistently, and daily for some time in my teaching practice. You'll soon see how these AI tools are full of surprises and potential to strengthen what we do. Whether you're chomping at the bit and ready to dive in or wishing the world was moving a bit slower, I know you'll leave this seminar feeling excited, equipped, and eager to bring AI into your own ELA classroom.

In our day together, we'll unpack the essentials and learn how to "chat well" with AI. We'll explore how to use AI tools in timesaving ways for curriculum design purposes, instructional planning, and assessment work. You'll also learn how to situate AI as a learning partner that deepens students' critical thinking, offers thoughtful feedback, and provides examples and invitations to learn on demand.

Our time will be largely devoted to the exploration of tangible tools and practical protocols that you will be able to use immediately the moment you return to your classroom. We'll also take care to explore potential pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns regarding the use of AI-powered tools in the ELA classroom.

I can't wait to help you take full advantage of the incredible opportunities that AI offers all of us who love teaching secondary ELA students. Bring your ideas, your questions, and your worries with you. We'll workshop them together. See you soon!

Sincerely,
Angela Stockman

P.S. You will leave this seminar energized and excited with many new and effective ways to strengthen your ELA students' learning and enhance your own productivity using AI.

Who Should Attend

Middle and High School English/Language Arts (ELA) Teachers, 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
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

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 making best use of AI tools in secondary ELA classrooms.

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

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo 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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