Special Education Resource Teachers: Using AI Tools and Strategies to Enhance Student Learning and Ease Your Workload (Grades K-12) Presented by Renita Craig Outstanding Special Education Teacherand National Presenter

Specially Designed for Grades K-12 Special Education Resource Teachers, Special Education Department Heads, and Administrators

• Enhance learning with lessons and activities using practical AI Tools
• Leverage Generative AI for timesaving assessments and more efficient progress monitoring
• Best AI tools and techniques to save valuable time on special education resource teacher tasks
• Avoid common pitfalls and address ethical concerns of using AI tools in special education

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this NEW seminar by outstanding special education teacher Renita Craig, learn the value of artificial intelligence (AI) for more time efficient assessments, progress monitoring, interventions, and productivity! Find out how AI may help you create differentiated lessons and more easily create accommodations and modifications, while meeting the needs of individual students. Make every day count in your practice with the use of AI in ways that will enhance student learning and lighten your resource teacher workload. The use of AI offers innovative new methods to increase instructional time and decrease time spent on required documentation and administrative tasks.

This seminar is designed to provide you with practical, actionable strategies and skills you can immediately implement as a special education teacher. Join Renita for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity— tools and resources that you as a special education resource teacher can put into practice the very next day!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools To Enhance Student Learning for Special Education Resource Teachers
   Use practical AI tools and strategies to boost student achievement … Receiveoutstanding practical resources you can immediately implement
2. Incorporate AI in Your Resource Teaching Practice to Improve Your Specially Designed Instruction
   Individualize, personalize and organize to better serve students receiving specially designed instruction … Enhance your differentiation practice and boost student outcomes using AI to help your students learn
3. Boost Students' Organization and Participation in Class
   Incorporate AI to help your students' organization and participation … Achievemore successful outcomes across all settings and situations
4. Help Your Resource Students Become More Independent Learners With AI Supports
   Gaining independence is a life skill we want for our students … Learn how AI may help your students go from being less independent to more independent
5. Avoid and Address Potential Pitfalls and Ethical Concerns Using AI in Special Education
   AI opens exciting new opportunities, but can also bring new challenges andconcerns … Explore solutions to potential pitfalls and ethical concerns, and learn ways to promote responsible use of AI
6. Practical AI Tools for Supporting Behavior Plans and Interventions
   Explore cutting-edge AI tools to help you implement behavior plans as a special education resource teacher … Learn strategies that will help you and your colleagues better manage student behavior
7. Save Valuable Time Planning, Teaching and Assessing With Artificial Intelligence
   Time is the only commodity that cannot be borrowed, bartered, kept, orstolen … Explore great ways to use AI to save time on lesson planning, teaching, assessing, grading, and more
8. Reduce Time Spent on Your Administrative Work and Everyday Tasks
   Put AI to work for you as you streamline your workflow using adaptabletemplates, plug-in tools, and other helpful strategies that will cut down the time you spend each day on administrative work … Here's how!
9. New AI Technology You Can Incorporate Immediately
   Learn new AI tools that you can immediately adopt into your regular routines to increase productivity, save time, and improve your efficiency as a resource teacher
10. Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Packed With Practical AI Tools and Ideas
    You'll receive an extensive digital resource handbook packed with practical ideas, strategies, and tools specifically designed to help you increase your students' learning while easing your administrative workload

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, most useful AI tools to enhance learning and ease your workload
• AI tools to help your students receiving resource services improve academic success
• Strategies to individualize pre-assessment, assessment and feedback using AI tools to develop goals, objectives and progress monitoring
• Exciting new AI tools to write stronger, legally compliant paperwork to meet the needs of students and families in special education
• AI tools to enhance student behavior plans and sharable classroom interventions
• Valuable tips to get the most from artificial intelligence – even if you're the only one using it!
• AI techniques to help you automate tasks which formerly consumed too much of your time
• 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
• Creative ways to increase student productivity and effectiveness through AI
• Turn AI into an administrative assistant to streamline your grading, communication, curriculum sequencing, pacing, and documentation work
• Practical ways AI can deliver real-time feedback and improve students' performance
• Inspiring students to learn independently through AI-based teaching strategies
• Gain AI tools for both direct instruction and independent student learning to help your learners grow and thrive
• Find joy in teaching special education as AI helps energize your practice and inspire you to focus on what truly matters!

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a long-time special education educator and more recent AI enthusiast, I've discovered a whole new level of unimaginable and innovative tools I can use to support my work! I have found and adopted powerful ways to use AI tools to save valuable time creating specially designed instruction lesson plans, differentiating for all the special needs of my students, and almost instantly creating the tailored accommodations and modifications that really work. Who among us doesn't want to save time on prep and paperwork? I am beyond excited to share all the practical AI tips and pathways I have learned and implemented to provide you with timesaving tools, strategies and resources.

This new seminar on AI for Special Education Resource Teachers will provide you with multiple ways to almost immediately reduce your time spent on administrative work and everyday tasks, place tools and strategies at your fingertips, and immediately improve your student outcomes. You will discover AI tools to increase your productivity in all aspects of case management for students, progress monitoring, and academic interventions, reclaiming valuable time to focus on meaningful instruction with your resource students. We'll explore a variety of innovative AI avenues that can significantly enhance your students' learning while easing your workload!

Please join me in exploring a host of innovative and practical ideas just for resource teachers! I plan to share many practical new ideas. You will leave with actionable strategies and skills to incorporate AI to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your instruction, and boost your capacity to provide more efficient, high-quality special education services.

Sincerely,
Dr. Renita Craig

P.S. Learn highly practical AI tools and strategies enhancing student learning while saving valuable time as a special education resource teacher!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-12 Special Education Resource Teachers, Special Education Department Heads, 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:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to enhance learning and address differentiated needs for your Special Education students
• Practical steps you can take to automate routine administrative tasks using artificial intelligence
• Best AI tools to improve student learning while immediately reducing your workload
• Highly practical strategies for using AI tools to assist with your assessments, interventions and skills teaching

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 use of AI in specially designed instruction.

Consultation Available
Renita Craig 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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