Workshops for teachers
Teachers learn to read a conversation between a student and an AI: which questions keep the student doing the thinking, which patterns show who is steering, and what each level of agency looks like. Then they plan how to build those habits in class. Led by a classroom teacher who uses TAU with their own students.
Every turn a student takes with an AI hands it more or less of the thinking. Teachers learn to sort turns into four levels, from asking the AI to produce something or confirm an answer, up to making their own claim, and to challenging or rejecting what the AI said.
A sequence of turns says more than any one turn. Teachers learn the patterns that show who is steering: pressing the AI on the same point, or turning down its draft and saying what to write instead, against a run of requests with nothing of the student's own in between.
Transformative, Directive, Reactive and Passive describe where a student's thinking came into the work. Teachers learn what each looks like in a real conversation, and how to use it to start a conversation with a student rather than to grade them.
Classroom moves that keep the student's ideas in the work: taking a position before opening the AI, disputing a claim with a reason, and saying what changed between drafts and why.
Teachers practise on their own conversations first, so each idea is tied to something they did a few minutes earlier.
Use the AI yourself
About five minutes on one short task, which includes disagreeing with something the AI claims. Teachers join from a link, with no account.
Read your own conversation
Teachers find the question types and patterns in their own turns, and see what the AI did when they disagreed with it.
Plan for your students
The room compares what happened, then plans prompts and lessons that build the same habits in students.
No. The workshop opens with five minutes of hands-on use, so everyone starts from the same place.
No. They join from a link. Their conversations are deleted after the workshop.
No. The workshop works on its own, and nothing is set up for your classes.
The setup session gets classes and assignments running in TAU for the curriculum. The workshop is about AI and teaching.
Tell us how many teachers will attend and when you would like to run it. We will reply with dates and pricing.
