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Use Cases: AI in the school workspace
The arrival of AI requires leaders and teachers to examine how technology affects teaching and learning, particularly the value of productive struggle.
Schools must integrate AI into their ethical and pedagogical practices from the start. The following Phase 1 use cases show how curriculum leaders can align school policies with daily classroom practice to support student achievement and wellbeing:
- Data & Privacy Hygiene: As a Curriculum Leader, I want to deploy gatekeeper system prompts locked strictly to ACARA v9, VCAA V2 and ST4S privacy bounds, so that I can eliminate hallucinated outputs and ensure our department complies with state requirements.
- GenAI as Dialogic Partner: As a Curriculum Leader, I want to audit our team's AI workspace protocols against Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) safeguards, so that I can prevent cultural misrepresentation and ensure all generated learning materials respect cultural knowledge.
- Assessment for Learning: As a Curriculum Leader, I want to create an assessment checklist tailored for the AI era, so that teachers can evaluate authentic student growth and maintain academic integrity.
Use Cases: AI for progress mapping
Using AI in progress mapping isn't about automating lesson creation or rushing through curriculum content. It is about deconstructing dense standards into clear, actionable ‘Know, Understand, Do’ targets and designing engaging learning journeys.
Instead of relying on generic worksheets or walls of text, Phase 2 turns the big ideas of your curriculum into differentiated, active learning materials that foster deep student inquiry.
- Unpacking Standards (UbD Method): As a Primary Learning Specialist, I want to use GenAI to separate action verbs from subject matter across new curriculum standards, so that I can run a PLC session that teaches my team how to isolate core ‘Know, Understand, Do’ targets.
- Workload Reduction: As a Learning Specialist, I want to co-design a student workbook template with GenAI, so that my department can replace scattered single-use worksheets with a structured term-length learning guide.
- Differentiating & Personalising: As an EAL Leading Teacher, I want to instruct GenAI to map writing and speaking progressions across EAL continuums, so that I can provide mainstream teachers with a clear baseline map for adjusting classroom expectations.
Use Cases: AI for assessment connections
Effective curriculum design uses backward design: rubrics and performance tasks are drafted before daily lessons to ensure every assessed skill is taught and practised explicitly.
This approach shifts assessment away from finished products alone toward process-based evidence—such as staged drafts, oral defences and source evaluations—that highlight genuine student thinking.
To guide students, schools embed low-stakes formative checkpoints (Checkpoint 1: Idea, Checkpoint 2: Draft, Checkpoint 3: Practice Run) into the sequence, providing feedback and resolving misconceptions well before final submission:
- Backward Design & Alignment Check: As a Primary Learning Specialist, I want to use GenAI in PLC sessions to review unit plans against final rubrics, so that our team confirms every assessed skill is taught and practised beforehand.
- Outcomes-Focused Assessment: As a Curriculum Coordinator, I want to move our assessment policy away from unreliable AI detectors toward staged, sequential drafting, so that we assess genuine student learning and maintain task integrity.
- Formative Checkpoints: As an Instructional Coach, I want to co-create a standard 3-checkpoint template (Idea, Draft, Rehearsal) with GenAI, so that teachers can easily incorporate milestone reviews across all term planners.
Use Cases: AI for Daily Planning
Using AI in daily planning is not about sticking rigidly to a static syllabus or rushing through topics regardless of student understanding. It creates a responsive, dynamic workflow in the classroom.
Phase 4 replaces paper binders with a central four-tab planning spreadsheet. By combining ongoing tracking, quick voice-to-text notes and targeted review plans, teachers can adapt instruction in real time to match student needs:
- Daily Planning Architecture: As an Instructional Coach, I want to co-create a central 4-tab lesson planner with GenAI, so that my department can replace static paper folders with live, digital lesson trackers.
- Strategic Plan Alignment: As a Principal, I want to use GenAI to translate our Strategic Plan priorities (such as building student agency) into concrete, actionable routines within teachers' daily planners.
- Live Tracking: As a Classroom Teacher, I want to use voice-to-text to add brief observations to my planner during class, capturing student progress without interrupting instruction.
- Data-Driven Review Protocols: As a Curriculum Coordinator, I want to lead a weekly PLC review using GenAI, so that teaching teams can analyse end-of-week tracking data together and plan targeted reteaching for Monday.
- Responsible AI Modelling: As a Classroom Teacher, I want to project GenAI prompts on screen to think aloud through errors and revisions, showing students how to evaluate and improve AI-generated work.
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