Overview
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT · ENGLAND AND WALES AI in Education Level 3 A practitioner’s course in using AI well — teaching, assessment, workload, safeguarding, ethics, and the legal and professional frame in England and Wales. NINE MODULES · 20-QUESTION KNOWLEDGE …
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AI in Education
A practitioner’s course in using AI well — teaching, assessment, workload, safeguarding, ethics, and the legal and professional frame in England and Wales.
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Overview
This course takes education practitioners — teachers, leaders, support staff and those who train them — and gives their AI use a professional backbone. It moves in a deliberate arc: what the technology is and how it actually works; using it well in teaching, assessment and the administrative load; and the frame that must hold around all of it — safeguarding and data protection, ethics and equity, teaching AI literacy to learners, and the law and guidance of England and Wales.
Every module ends with an Apply & Reflect task that sends the learning straight back into the learner’s live practice, and the course closes with a 20-question knowledge check. The material assumes a working professional: it spends its time on judgement — what to verify, what never to type into a chatbot, when to escalate, how to talk to pupils honestly — not on tool tutorials that would date within months. This is CPD, not a regulated qualification, a licence or legal advice; “Level 3” describes the pitch of the material, not a place on a regulated qualifications framework.
Who this course is for
Assumed starting point: current work in or around an education setting. No technical background is needed — the course explains the technology in plain language.
Classroom teachers in any phase using AI already — or watching colleagues and pupils use it — and wanting their practice put on solid ground
Middle and senior leaders responsible for policy, procurement, safeguarding or assessment integrity as AI arrives in all four at once
SENCos, support and pastoral staff meeting AI in accessibility tools, pupil wellbeing conversations and parent communication
FE and post-16 practitioners teaching the cohort with the highest AI use in the system, under live assessment pressure
Trainers, mentors and ITE staff who develop other educators and need a defensible, current baseline to teach from
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, learners can:
Explain in plain language how generative AI works — prediction, not knowledge — and predict its main failure modes: hallucination, bias, stale knowledge and sycophancy.
Use a structured prompting pattern to produce teaching resources, differentiated materials and admin documents, and apply a quality gate before anything reaches learners.
Use AI defensibly in assessment and feedback — expanding their own judgements, never delegating them — and state the honest professional position on AI detection tools.
Recognise and respond to AI-related safeguarding situations at practitioner level, routing concerns through the DSL and existing procedures.
Apply UK GDPR discipline to AI use — what never enters a tool, when a DPIA is required, what to do after a data mistake — and use the DfE product safety standards with suppliers.
Identify where bias enters AI systems, audit generated materials for representation, and take deliberate steps to narrow rather than widen digital divides.
Teach age-staged AI literacy to learners, hold honest conversations — companions, deepfakes, acknowledgement — and engage parents and carers with a clear message.
Locate their duties across the legal and guidance frame of England and Wales, and maintain the annual habits that keep practice current.
Career path
AI capability is fast becoming part of what schools and trusts mean by digital leadership. This course strengthens the practitioner’s current role first — and underpins roles that formalise that capability:
Course structure
The AI Moment in Education
How AI Systems Actually Work
AI in Teaching Practice
Assessment, Feedback and Academic Integrity
Workload, Administration and Operations
Safeguarding, Data Protection and Privacy
Ethics, Bias and Equity
Teaching AI Literacy to Learners
Law, Policy and Professional Practice
Frequently asked questions
Q. Is this a regulated qualification?
No. This is CPD. “Level 3” describes the difficulty and pitch of the material — confident practitioner level — not a position on the Regulated Qualifications Framework.
Q. Will this course qualify me to lead AI in my school?
It gives you the professional grounding such a role needs. Whether a role, allowance or title follows is your employer’s decision — no course confers authority by itself.
Q. How many CPD points or hours is it worth?
Indicative study time is around 15–16 hours including the reflective tasks. Point values depend on your scheme and any accreditation the provider secures.
Q. Will the course teach me specific AI tools?
Deliberately, no — it teaches durable practice: how the technology behaves, how to prompt, verify, protect data and stay legal. Named tools appear as examples only.
Q. Is the legal content valid where I work?
Stated for England and Wales, with some documents (such as KCSIE) applying to England specifically. Scotland, Northern Ireland and other jurisdictions differ, in places substantially.
Q. Do AI detection tools feature in the course?
Yes, honestly — it states that detection scores are unreliable, carry documented false-positive risks (especially for EAL learners), and are never sufficient evidence alone.
Q. Is there an exam? What is the pass mark?
A 20-question multiple-choice knowledge check with a trainer-only answer key. Whether it is invigilated and what the pass mark is are provider decisions.
Q. Will this course still be accurate next year?
Parts of it will not be, and it says so. Adoption statistics, DfE guidance, JCQ revisions and KCSIE all update on annual or faster cycles — re-verification is built into Module 9.
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Course Features
- Lectures 11
- Quizzes 2
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 2
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
