AI for English Faculty Staff

Boost your English lessons with the latest AI-driven teaching strategies in this focused, 1-hour course. Discover how AI can provide personalized feedback, streamline grading, and support differentiated learning, freeing you to spend more time nurturing creativity and critical thinking in your students. From improving written and spoken language skills to fostering engagement with tailored reading materials, AI offers tools that can revolutionize your classroom. Stay ahead of the curve and empower your students to excel.

AI for Personalized Writing Feedback
AI-powered tools can provide real-time feedback on students’ writing, helping them improve grammar, structure, and style. This reduces the burden on teachers while enabling students to get instant, actionable advice on their writing.
AI-Powered Differentiated Reading Materials
AI can analyze students’ reading levels and suggest texts that are appropriately challenging. This helps teachers ensure that each student is reading material that suits their ability, encouraging both progress and engagement.
Automated Essay Scoring and Assessment
AI can assist with grading written assignments, providing consistency and saving teachers hours of work. Teachers can focus more on providing detailed, formative feedback, while AI handles the repetitive aspects of assessment.
Speech-to-Text Tools for Developing Oral Skills
AI-powered speech-to-text tools can help students improve their spoken language skills by providing transcriptions and feedback on pronunciation, fluency, and clarity. This is especially useful for students who struggle with oral presentations.
AI and Creativity in Writing
AI tools can inspire students to enhance their creative writing by offering suggestions, ideas, and prompts. These tools can push students to explore new forms of expression and refine their storytelling abilities in innovative ways.

James Pitts is an accomplished educator with over 20 years of experience in the UK and internationally, as a Vice Principal and Director of Digital Technology. His career is distinguished by a steadfast commitment to leveraging digital technology to enhance educational experiences. Adopting innovative approaches to integrating cutting-edge digital solutions into educational frameworks, James has significantly influenced curriculum development and administrative processes, always with a focus on student-centric, technology-enhanced learning. His expertise in digital education, coupled with a passion for continuous learning in the field, positions James as a highly respected leader and advocate for the transformative power of technology in education.

Accessing the online event

Following registration for this event you will receive an email from Eventbrite confirming your place. If you do not receive the email within a few minutes, please check your junk or spam folders and check that the correct email address was provided at the time of booking. If you did not create an account at the time of booking or someone else booked on your behalf, you will need to create an Eventbrite account. Open your booking confirmation email, select ‘Claim Your Order’ and then choose a password. Make a note of your email address that was used to make the booking and your new password – you will need these to access the Eventbrite page containing the link to the event.

A minimum of 48 hours before the event begins you will receive another email from Eventbrite containing a direct link to the event and to the Eventbrite Online Event page. Login to Eventbrite, using the same email and password you used to create your account. You will now have access to the online event link and any pre-event materials. This link must not be shared with other people.

Please test the link the day before the event to make sure you can connect. If you need help please email info@otsa.org.uk or call 01865 647999 in good time before the event begins. We will be unable to help during the event itself. Please note, if you unsubscribe from Eventbrite before the event takes place you will not receive any further emails from Eventbrite and therefore will not receive the email with the link to the event.

We do not provide refunds if you are unable to access the event due to technical issues that are beyond our control.

Participation in online events

In all cases, at the beginning of the session to confirm your identity please ensure that your camera is on, your username matches the name you registered with and that you register in ‘chat’ with your first name, second name and organisation. This is for security and registration purposes and we may remove, without refunds, participants who have not confirmed their identity as described above.

Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

This event will not be recorded for copyright and privacy reasons.

Payment

Payment is required at the time of booking by credit card, debit card or Paypal. Unless otherwise stated, a ticket gives admission to one person at face-to-face and online events. In the event that you share an online event link with other people who then attend the event, including sharing your screen, or you arrive at a venue without a ticket and we are able to admit you, we will invoice you or your organisation for additional tickets retrospectively.

Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.

In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% plus 0.59p per ticket is not refundable.

To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue invoices for payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.

We strongly recommend that you take out ‘event ticket insurance’ which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.

Technical Difficulties

Should an online session encounter any technical difficulties we will do our best to continue with the session, this may be on a different online platform. In the event that we are unable to do this we will rearrange the session, if you are unable to attend the new date a full refund will be given.