Incorporating AI Into Your Teaching Practice

Part 1: Friday, November 21, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (in person at First Literacy)
Part 2: Friday, December 5, 2025
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (online via Zoom)

In this practice-oriented session, you’ll explore ways that ESOL teachers can incorporate generative AI (like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude) into their teaching practice. We focus not on classroom use with students, but on teachers’ back-end work: planning lessons, working with materials, developing curriculum, assessments and evaluation. Participating teachers will walk away with several practices that integrate AI into their work, along with a set of useful AI tools, frameworks, and resources to support their continuing professional development. The ideal participant has some basic awareness of generative AI tools but may not be actively using them. 

Workshop Learning Objectives:

• Explore different AI programs and learn how to incorporate them into your teaching practice
• Gain new insights on how to use AI to more easily develop materials and enhance your teaching practice

Presenter:
Rob Sheppard has been in the field of English language teaching for about 20 years. He has been a teacher, program administrator, and curriculum developer in Seoul, Taipei, Boston, Quincy, and now Philadelphia. He has a masters in TESOL from The New School and is pursuing a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Temple University.  

This workshop is free to staff of all Massachusetts non-profit ABE and ESOL Programs.

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