Professional development · Teaching the Units
Teaching Modern AI — grades 9-12
5.0 contact hours · 5 modules · Asynchronous, self-paced, online
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Learning objectives
What a participant can do afterwards
- Trace the K-12 throughline from silicon to agents and locate the 9-12 band within it.
- State what this curriculum claims about CSF, CSP, and the VDOE AI Guidance — and what it openly does not cover.
- Distinguish a supplemental AI arc from a full CSF course of study.
- Run the Unit 1 embedding activity and the Unit 4 next-token sampling activity unplugged, start to finish.
- Name the three misconceptions these activities are designed to surface at the high-school level.
- Judge student work against a described standard rather than against vocabulary fluency.
- Answer 'is it thinking?' in a way that is honest, age-appropriate for seniors, and does not close the question.
- Frame bias at scale, IP disputes, and career anxiety as consequences of mechanism and policy rather than as villainy or inevitability.
- Respond to a parent or administrator objection without conceding ground that is not yours to concede.
- Apply the provided rubrics to real student work without drifting into effort grading or vocabulary inflation.
- Identify which evidence to collect across eleven units and which to stop collecting.
- Respond to suspected chatbot-written work in a way that is fair, quick, and survives a parent conversation.
- Sequence the first two weeks of the 9-12 band against your own pacing calendar.
- Adapt the sequence for the constraints and students you actually have.
- Produce a pacing plan specific enough that a colleague could teach from it.
Module agenda
300 contact minutes, itemised
| Module | Title | Components | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What this curriculum actually claims | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice | 60 |
| 2 | Teaching Units 1 through 4 without assuming ML fluency | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice | 60 |
| 3 | The hard conversations | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice, Artifact | 60 |
| 4 | Assessment in this band | Overview, Walkthrough, Practice, Check | 60 |
| 5 | Your first two weeks | Overview, Walkthrough, Artifact, Reflection | 60 |
| Total | 300 minutes (5.0 contact hours) | ||
Required artifact
Module 5 — Your first two weeks
Participants produce a dated pacing plan for their own class: a day-by-day table across the first two weeks with real dates, the materials and evidence for each period, the adaptations their roster needs, and a written AI-use rule. It is specific enough that a covering colleague could teach from it.
Format and provider
- Provider
- Schoolhouse
- Format
- Asynchronous, self-paced, online
- Version
- v1.0 · as of 2026-08
- Contact hours
- 5.0
Virginia licensure renewal
Submitted under Option 8, Professional Development Activity, of the Virginia Licensure Renewal Manual (1 point per clock/contact hour, 5-hour minimum). Prior approval by the chief executive officer or designee of the employing educational agency is required before the activity begins.
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