Curriculum Making with Generative AI

 I’m Dr Josey De Rossi, and I started teaching in 1976… This year is my 50th year in the profession!  I’ve mustered my knowledge and experience of the last five decades to create CURRICULUM MAKERS®, an education service that uses AI technology to solve the number one problem in our profession, enabling curriculum leaders and teachers to design units and lessons to reclaim their schools and classrooms as spaces for creativity and professional satisfaction.

No, Curriculum Makers® is not another lesson bank! It’s not even another ‘we’ve done everything wrong’ approach! The truth is we have so much content around us already that it has become a huge part of the problem trying to manage our insanely busy teaching lives. 

 Instead, Curriculum Makers® has designed a creative process to use LLMs to navigate the knowledge and resources that you may be already using. Its purpose is to release their ‘win-win’ value, that is, both the teacher and student win -  teachers win by working ‘smarter’ and students win through ‘learning how to learn’.  

 For two years, I’ve been trialling its use for adapting units and lessons on my own teaching portfolio. This diagram summarises my discoveries along the journey which have influenced me. 

I'm a teacher and curriculum content editor driven by a singular goal: developing quality curriculum materials that inspire teachers and students. As the Founder and First Chair of Curriculum Writers Association Australia (CWAA), I have dedicated my career to breaking down the silos of traditional educational practices, to foster a collegiate culture where professional knowledge is shared.  

Having navigated some profound challenges early on in my classroom career, I'm a strong advocate for the power of relationships in education, I advocate for the power of strong relationships and the time required for true pedagogical deliberation. I bring a global perspective to the intersection of technology and pedagogy, viewing the evolution of Generative AI not as a shortcut, but as a site for continuous evaluation and sophisticated oversight.

My work with Dr Josey De Rossi and Curriculum Makers, like all my work, is about making AI technology more coherently aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teaching. Nothing motivates more than growing the agency, substantially and deliberately, of school-based decision making.