Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI

Teachers in England have been granted all clear to use artificial intelligence to help them in low -level tasks that are part of their duties, according to BBC reports.

The guidelines of the Ministry of Education (DFE) says that artificial intelligence can be used by school teachers in England, but it should be only for the tasks of “low risk”, such as writing messages to parents and placing homework.

The decision to agree to use technology follow the results of teachers ’survey in 2023, which was conducted on behalf of DFE. In it, the majority of respondents were said to be “widespread optimistic” about the use of artificial intelligence in the context of their functions. At that time, a TEACHER TAP spokesman (the company behind the program used to conduct the poll) said: “It is very normal now that you are a mathematics teacher, and that you have not put a sign of homework for mathematics anymore … because we have a chronic shortage of mathematics teachers who do not know that nothing is felt,” said a spokesman for the Teacher Tap (the company behind the program used to conduct the poll).

Responses on a 2023 poll can be adapted from teachers who say artificial intelligence is very useful when they need suitable educational materials, and in the context of writing reports for parents about their children’s performance and behavior.

As part of today’s announcement, DFE said that teachers who use artificial intelligence will help reduce the work of the unpaid additional teachers, and can improve the balance between work and job satisfaction.

By allowing employees to use artificial intelligence tools, it is hoped that the statistics related to mental health for teachers in general (36 % of teachers have suffered from “combustion” according to support for charitable education [PDF]) And it will have an effect that attracts more graduates to the profession.

Part of the daily stress that many teachers suffer from a lack of qualified teachers, a position that may help the use of artificial intelligence. Although the UK government referred to a greater number of teachers working in the entire UK more than a decade, the percentage of students to teachers still expands with the growth of the population. Teaching lessons are 33 or more common in English government schools, and more than a million students are taught in the United Kingdom in more than 30 classes.

The average attrition for qualified teachers in the UK is about 8.8 %, according to Sesed, a website on the Internet aimed at high school teachers (11-18 age group). Sexed also stated that the number of open positions in the sector increased from three to six every 1,000 teachers in the 12 months of 2022.

Due to the budget restrictions on local authorities and schools, the jobs open by teachers are often occupied by teachers in the short term (alternative) who are obtained through employment agencies, a practice that costs schools much more than paying permanent employees with wages.

In line with today’s announcement, a post on the Hub Educational Blog that the UK government stipulates that “teachers can use artificial intelligence to help things such as planning for lessons, resource construction, work mark, comments and dealing with administrative tasks.” It also gives Proviso that it is up to the individual teacher “to lose that anything that AI creates is accurate and appropriate – the final responsibility always lies with them and their school or college.”

DFE has also granted the government to agree to the use of artificial intelligence by companies that conduct school curricula and evaluate schools in the United Kingdom, whose results determine school classifications in alleged league tables. These are classifications made by schools by Offsted (Standards Office in Education) such as “special measures”, “good” or “wonderful”. Approval of the use of artificial intelligence comes in this context despite the opposition of teaching unions.

The long -term issue that erupted in the English school system for several decades is not the use of the sector for technology, but it is a lack of chronic financing. NAHT (the National Association of Fact Teachers) states that between the 2009-10 and 2021-2022 years, capitalist spending on schools witnessed an average rate of inflation by 29 % over the course of the contract. The Financial Study Institute said that school spending for each student in England has witnessed a 9 % real decrease in the real stage in the same period.

Preparing teaching specialists in technology tools may help teachers who have the burden of management who have been put on them, although homework mode can be considered what the Ministry of Education “Low Stakes” can consider a discussion.

Investing in school -age children is an increase in the education budget costly, while subscriptions in artificial intelligence models can be less than a few dollars per month. On paper, the temptation of teachers who help teachers to manage their work burdens should be more efficient for DFE officials. But what is clear is the constantly low value of childhood teaching by successive UK governments.

Making a decision to allow Amnesty International to help employees in the education sector who suffer from a criminal financing deficiency is largely not related and will have a little impact on the quality of education provided to another generation of English children.

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