Teacher CPD · Secondary Schools

Teaching AI Across the Transition Year Programme

This course equips Transition Year teachers to lead AI integration with confidence. It explores the current AI landscape as experienced by students, supports the development of clear classroom policies and co-created AI charters, and provides practical approaches to designing AI-robust tasks, implementing AI-aware assessment, and teaching critical literacy around hallucination, bias and deepfakes. Participants will create a coherent year-long plan that aligns with school strategy and TY personal development goals.
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€39
Enrolment per teacher
What's included
  • Self paced
  • Online course
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Certificate from Coding Ireland

Explore the Course

Two lessons that establish three things: an honest map of where you are starting from (the confidence audit); a working understanding of what TY students actually do with AI today and what the NCCA TY Programme Statement asks of you; and a productive mindset for teaching a topic that is moving faster than any teacher can keep up with on their own.

Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset for AI
The TY AI Landscape: What Students Actually Use (and What They Do Not Tell You)

Two lessons that build the conditions for everything else to work: a sensible classroom AI use policy that you can actually enforce, and a Class AI Charter co-designed with your students so that the rules feel like theirs, not a pasted-in school document. These two artifacts become the foundation Modules 3, 4 and 5 build on.

Drafting an AI Use Policy for Your TY Classroom
Co-designing a Class AI Charter with Your Students

Three lessons covering the practical assessment-design problem at the heart of TY AI delivery: which tasks should be designed so AI cannot easily do them (AI-robust), which should deliberately invite AI use as part of the learning (AI-friendly), why detection tools are not the answer, and how to assess TY projects in a portfolio-led, disclosure-led culture.

Designing Tasks That Are Ai-robust (and Knowing Which to Leave Ai-friendly)
Spotting Ai-generated Work, and Why Detection Tools Are Not the Answer
Ai-aware Assessment for TY Projects: Process, Evidence, Disclosure

Two lessons covering the content TY students most need from you: how to evaluate AI output critically (hallucination, training-data bias, missing sources, image and audio deepfakes) and how to talk to TY students about AI in a way that is neither breathless hype nor doom-scroll fear.

Hallucination, Bias, Sources and Deepfakes
Talking to Students About AI Without Hype or Doom

Two lessons that close the course. The first treats AI literacy as a cross-curricular project, connecting the conversation a student has in Exploring AI (or in your subject-embedded module) to what their other TY teachers say. The second synthesises everything into your TY AI Year Plan and the final reflection.

Cross-subject Coherence and Ty's Personal-growth Goals
Your TY AI Year Plan and Final Reflection

Two lessons that establish three things: an honest map of where you are starting from (the confidence audit); a working understanding of what TY students actually do with AI today and what the NCCA TY Programme Statement asks of you; and a productive mindset for teaching a topic that is moving faster than any teacher can keep up with on their own.

Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset for AI
The TY AI Landscape: What Students Actually Use (and What They Do Not Tell You)

Two lessons that build the conditions for everything else to work: a sensible classroom AI use policy that you can actually enforce, and a Class AI Charter co-designed with your students so that the rules feel like theirs, not a pasted-in school document. These two artifacts become the foundation Modules 3, 4 and 5 build on.

Drafting an AI Use Policy for Your TY Classroom
Co-designing a Class AI Charter with Your Students

Three lessons covering the practical assessment-design problem at the heart of TY AI delivery: which tasks should be designed so AI cannot easily do them (AI-robust), which should deliberately invite AI use as part of the learning (AI-friendly), why detection tools are not the answer, and how to assess TY projects in a portfolio-led, disclosure-led culture.

Designing Tasks That Are Ai-robust (and Knowing Which to Leave Ai-friendly)
Spotting Ai-generated Work, and Why Detection Tools Are Not the Answer
Ai-aware Assessment for TY Projects: Process, Evidence, Disclosure

Two lessons covering the content TY students most need from you: how to evaluate AI output critically (hallucination, training-data bias, missing sources, image and audio deepfakes) and how to talk to TY students about AI in a way that is neither breathless hype nor doom-scroll fear.

Hallucination, Bias, Sources and Deepfakes
Talking to Students About AI Without Hype or Doom

Two lessons that close the course. The first treats AI literacy as a cross-curricular project, connecting the conversation a student has in Exploring AI (or in your subject-embedded module) to what their other TY teachers say. The second synthesises everything into your TY AI Year Plan and the final reflection.

Cross-subject Coherence and Ty's Personal-growth Goals
Your TY AI Year Plan and Final Reflection

What You'll Learn

Learning Goals

  1. Establish a Lead Learner mindset for AI, modelling verification routines and honest self-audit of confidence
  2. Develop a clear understanding of current TY student AI practices, both visible and hidden
  3. Create a use-case-based AI policy and co-designed Class AI Charter aligned with school and national digital strategy
  4. Design AI-robust tasks, implement process-focused assessment, and respond effectively to AI-generated work
  5. Teach critical literacy of AI output and facilitate balanced, non-sensationalist conversations with students about AI

Learning Outcomes

  1. Establish a Lead Learner mindset by openly modelling verification processes and completing an honest confidence audit across six dimensions of AI teaching
  2. Describe the current AI usage patterns of TY students in 2026, distinguishing between visible academic uses and less-visible personal applications
  3. Design and implement a use-case-based AI classroom policy and co-create a signed Class AI Charter aligned with school and national digital strategy
  4. Design AI-robust tasks incorporating visible process, local context, peer review and oral defence, and develop an AI-aware assessment framework using process evidence, disclosure statements and in-class checkpoints
  5. Plan and deliver critical literacy lessons on hallucination, bias, sourcing and deepfakes, and facilitate balanced discussions about AI using structured scripts and protocols

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