Skills Tasmania: High Impact Teaching and Assessment Workshop (Introductory) Hobart

This isn't your typical AI workshop. We begin where it matters most – with cognitive load theory and High Impact Teaching Strategies: educational principles that drive effective teaching, including questioning, explicit teaching, quality actionable feedback, and differentiated instruction. We'll also consider the real challenges teachers face daily, then examine how AI can meaningfully support your work in light of these core imperatives.
This is a hands-on, practical session. Andrew Douch will demonstrate powerful AI apps and strategies, then you'll have dedicated time to test and apply them directly to your own teaching and assessment context.

• Overview of the ten strategies for High Impact Teaching.
• Principles that drive effective teaching.
• Adjusting content, process, and product to support mastery.
• Developing learner skills for a less routine, more complex world of work.
• Designing and implementing differentiated assessment strategies.
• Using AI tools to support differentiated teaching and assessment, including practical activities with existing AI resources (participants must bring a laptop).

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
• Design instruction that optimises cognitive load.
• Explain how differentiated teaching lifts performance for all learners, including those behind and ahead of expectations.
• Plan lessons that incorporate adjustments to content, process, and product.
• Recognise how differentiated teaching supports the development of self‑motivation, problem‑solving, and metacognitive skills.
• Select and apply tools and approaches that support teaching and assessment in your classroom.

Certificate of Attendance

Workbook

Morning Tea and Lunch 

What to Bring: Laptop, sample of teaching resources and assessments to use in activities.