Module 1: Pre-Flight Checks
A private, safe setup that never leaks student names or sensitive details.
For teachers, tutors & trainers
Get your planning time back, with a teaching assistant who never clocks off.
You’re the Captain. The crew is here to teach you.
You’re planning lessons and units, building worksheets, differentiating, drafting report comments and answering parent emails after hours. This course turns AI into a teaching assistant for your work, honestly and without the hype. It helps you teach. It does not do students’ work for them.
Module 1 is completely free. No payment required to start.
The whole philosophy in one idea
You are the Captain. The crew is here to teach you.
This isn’t a course where you sit back and let the technology fly. From the first minute, you’re in the pilot’s seat of your own journey with AI. You set the destination. You make the calls. You keep control of the aircraft, always.
You command
AI never flies the plane. It reads the instruments, drafts the flight plan and hands you the options. Every decision stays yours.
The crew serves & teaches
Your teaching crew: ChatGPT for quick lesson ideas and worksheets, Claude for careful report comments and parent communications, Perplexity for checking facts and finding sources, and Gemini if you live in Google Workspace or Classroom. They do the heavy lifting and teach you the controls. They never take them.
You graduate in command
You finish not as a nervous passenger hoping the tech behaves, but as a confident captain who knows when to call the crew and when to fly solo.
The fear that keeps educators stuck
Let’s name it before lesson one
“Isn’t AI just how students cheat?”
It can be, if no one models a better way. This course is about your work, not theirs. You use AI to plan units, draft resources, differentiate and write report comments faster, and you keep the professional judgement. Because you understand the tool honestly, you can also guide students to use it with integrity instead of pretending it does not exist. We model good, honest use throughout: check the facts, keep what is true, and own the final call. No income-course nonsense. Just planning time back.
The 6-module flight plan
The same journey, told for you
Module 2: Cleared For Taxi
The four flight controls applied to lesson plans, worksheets, emails and summaries.
Module 3: Cleared For Takeoff
Real jobs: unit plans, differentiated worksheets, report comments and parent emails, fact-checked.
Module 4: In The Air
Your real project: a full unit of work, a resource bank or a report-comment system, built this term.
Module 5: Holding Pattern
Staying safe: what to never paste in, plus privacy-aware habits that protect student data.
Module 6: Final Approach
A weekly routine that keeps the planning time coming back once the course ends.
Module 1 is a free preview: try the controls before you buy the seat.
When you take the controls
By graduation, you’re flying in command, with…
- A set of saved prompts for your most repeated teaching tasks
- A real unit, resource set or report-comment bank, finished
- Clear rules on what student data is safe to use, and how to model honest AI use
- Several hours of planning time a week, reliably, back in your evenings
Everything in the kit bag
What’s included
One course, told in the language of your work. Whichever path you choose, the full kit comes with it.
Six modules of video
Roughly 6 to 8 hours of plain-English lessons, broken into short, watchable pieces.
Screen-recorded walkthroughs
Watch the exact clicks, the exact prompts and the real results. Nothing hidden, nothing sped up.
One-page cheat sheet per module
Print it, stick it next to the keyboard, and fly with it until you don’t need it.
The Cleared To Try workbook
Guided exercises that turn watching into doing, one small win at a time.
The Tool Hangar
A plain-English guide to the wider AI fleet, so you know which tool suits which job.
Lifetime access + quarterly updates
The tools keep changing. Your course keeps up, at no extra cost.
Where AI gives teachers planning time back
The honest case for AI in teaching is not about students. It is about the planning and admin that fills your evenings and weekends. Used well, AI is a teaching assistant for your own work. It does the first-draft heavy lifting, and you keep every piece of professional judgement. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Lesson and unit planning. You give it the year level, the curriculum outcomes, the time you have and the resources in the room, and it drafts a sequence of lessons or a unit overview. It will not know your class. You will. So you treat the draft as a starting point and shape it around the students in front of you.
Differentiating a resource. You have one worksheet and three reading levels in the room. Paste it in and ask for a simpler version, an extension version, and a scaffolded version with sentence starters. Ten minutes instead of an hour, and every student gets work that meets them where they are.
Rubrics and quick checks. Describe the task and the criteria, and it drafts a rubric or a set of quiz questions with answers. You read every line, because the wording of a criterion is a teaching decision, not a clerical one.
Report comments and parent communication. It helps you turn rough notes about a student into a clear, warm comment, or draft the email home about a behaviour concern or an excursion. You check that every sentence is true of that child before it goes anywhere.
Explaining a tricky concept three ways. Long division, photosynthesis, the causes of a war. Ask for three different explanations pitched at your year level, and you walk into the lesson with options for the student who did not get it the first way.
Plain summaries of dense documents. Drop in a curriculum document or a policy update and ask for a one-page plain-English summary so you can see what actually changed.
Two rules sit under all of it. First, this is your work, not the students’. AI plans your lessons; it does not do their learning. Second, check anything that matters, because it can state a wrong fact as confidently as a right one. When you use AI openly and verify it honestly, you also become the person who can teach students to do the same.
Common questions about AI for educators
Isn’t AI just how students cheat? It can be, if no one shows a better way. This course is about your own planning and admin, not students’ work. And understanding the tool honestly is exactly what lets you guide students to use it with integrity, rather than pretending it does not exist.
Will it get facts wrong? Yes, sometimes, and confidently. So you check anything that matters before it reaches a student or a parent. That verifying habit is teachable, and modelling it openly is one of the most useful things you can do.
How much time does it actually save? On the planning and admin, real hours most weeks. The drafting, differentiating and summarising are where the time comes back. The teaching judgement stays with you, which is the part that was never the bottleneck anyway.
The runway is clear
Choose your path
Self-paced
Go at your own pace
$49 AUD
- All 6 modules (~6–8 hours of video)
- Screen-recorded walkthroughs
- One-page cheat sheet per module
- Cleared To Try workbook
- The Tool Hangar: guide to the wider AI fleet
- Lifetime access + quarterly updates
Module 1 is free to preview, no payment details, no commitment. Also available: Cleared For Take-Off, the book, $12.99 AUD. Training a whole team? Workshops and institutional programs are available separately.