Free 4-week async course

Teaching AI to Students

A practical, hands-on course for K-12 teachers. Learn which AI tools work in the classroom, build a real lesson plan, and finish with a portfolio piece you can use on Monday.

📧Email-delivered⏰Work at your pace🎯Build a real lesson plan💰Pathway to paid work

Free. No credit card. Next cohort starts April 14, 2026.

Course Syllabus

4 weeks. 13 lessons. 1 portfolio piece.

Each week builds on the last. By the end, you'll have a polished, peer-reviewed AI-integrated lesson plan — and the skills to create more.

AI Tools for Education

Explore the tools that actually work in a classroom. No hype, just hands-on testing.

▸The 6 AI tools every teacher should know (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, MagicSchool)

▸Head-to-head tool comparison on real teaching tasks

▸AI ethics, hallucinations, bias, and classroom boundaries

▸Writing your own classroom AI use policy

Deliverable: Completed AI tool comparison worksheet + classroom AI use policy

Designing AI-Integrated Lessons

Learn the CRAFT framework for writing prompts that actually work, and where AI fits in a lesson.

▸The CRAFT framework: Context, Role, Audience, Format, Task

▸The AI Integration Spectrum: prep-only → teacher-assisted → student-facing

▸Introduction to the Classpilot Lesson Plan Template

▸Map AI touchpoints onto a lesson you already teach

Deliverable: Draft lesson plan using the Classpilot template

Build Your First AI Lesson

Turn your draft into a polished, classroom-ready lesson plan. Test your AI prompts and refine.

▸Common first-draft mistakes and how to fix them

▸Testing and iterating AI prompts until output is classroom-ready

▸Writing teacher notes that other educators can follow

▸Quality rubric self-assessment

Deliverable: Polished, portfolio-ready AI-integrated lesson plan

Peer Review & What's Next

Give and receive feedback. Finalize your lesson plan. And if you're interested — get paid to create more.

▸How to give constructive, specific feedback

▸Incorporate peer feedback and make final revisions

▸The Classpilot review rubric (same one our paid reviewers use)

▸Invitation to apply as a paid Classpilot contractor

Deliverable: Final peer-reviewed lesson plan + contractor application (optional)

Who this course is for

K-12 teachers

Any subject, any grade level. If you teach, this course is for you.

AI-curious educators

You've heard about AI in education but haven't had time to dig in. This is your on-ramp.

Curriculum designers

You build lesson materials for others and want to incorporate AI thoughtfully.

Teachers wanting side income

You'd like to earn extra income by creating AI lesson plans for schools.

Start learning for free

13 email lessons. 4 weeks. One real lesson plan you can use in your classroom. Join the next cohort.

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. Next cohort: April 14, 2026.