AI workshop for teachers and schools
Vlad Tudor runs one-day AI workshops for teaching staff in Romanian schools and universities. The day covers how chatbots work, what students do with them, where to draw the line on homework and how teachers can use AI themselves. He ran this session for the teachers of Colegiul Laude-Reut and taught for four years at Politehnica Bucharest.
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What I hear from teachers.
“Half the essays I get now sound the same, and I can't prove anything.”
“Is it going to replace us, or just make our job harder?”
“The students know these tools better than we do.”
Start from the scepticism.
Teachers are right to be sceptical, and the scepticism is the best place to start. A chatbot asked the way you'd ask a friend will tell you what you want to hear, and a teenager asking it for an essay will get a fluent one.
Banning it doesn't work for long; ignoring it works even less. What works is understanding the tool well enough to design around it: assignments where the thinking is visible, and lessons where the teacher uses it openly and shows where it fails.
From the Gândește Diferit podcast, in Romanian.
One day, 9:00–17:00.
- How a chatbot produces a text, explained so you can explain it to a class.
- Why it agrees with whoever asks, and what that means for a student asking for help.
- What you can and can't tell from a finished text, and why the process matters more.
- Where to draw the line: an open discussion, with examples from your subjects.
- Exercise 1: preparing a real lesson from your syllabus with AI, then finding its mistakes.
- Exercise 2: worksheets at three levels of difficulty, checked by a colleague from the same subject.
- Exercise 3: redesigning one homework task so that the student's own thinking has to show.
- Round-up: a draft classroom rule on AI use that the staff can adapt together.
On Monday, teachers can:
- explain to students how a chatbot works and where it goes wrong;
- use AI to prepare materials faster, and check what it produces;
- set assignments that make the student's own work visible;
- talk about AI with students from knowledge rather than suspicion.
Rooms and work behind it.
Colegiul Laude-Reut
A session for the teaching staff on AI and teenagers, and where to draw the line. The recording is public.
The recording, on the Talks pagePolitehnica University of Bucharest
Four years teaching control-theory lab sessions, with the lab series recorded and published on YouTube during the pandemic.
TEDx
“The Story of AI”, an introduction to AI for a non-technical audience.
What's included.
A preparation call with the school's leadership about subjects, age groups and current rules.
Materials built on your curriculum and your students' age groups, in Romanian or English.
The day itself, at the school.
A short check-in after the workshop, agreed in the proposal.
One day (9:00–17:00) or two days, the second by subject group. Up to 20 teachers per group. Romanian or English. On site. This is not an accredited course and carries no transferable credits.
Weighing a specific AI decision rather than training a team? AI consulting
Questions that come up.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the format and the size of the group. After a short call you get a written proposal before anything is agreed.
Online or on site?
At the school. The afternoon is about your own lessons, and that works best in a room. Online delivery is possible on request, discussed case by case.
In Romanian or English?
Either. International and bilingual schools often choose English.
How many teachers can take part?
Up to 20 per group. For a larger staff, we split by subject area or run the day twice.
Does it help with the AI Act?
Article 4 asks organisations that use AI systems to take measures to support AI literacy among the people using them on their behalf, and that includes schools. A workshop for the staff is one such measure, and the agenda and materials remain as a record. The Act asks for effort, not a certificate, and I don't give legal guarantees; your legal adviser decides whether your measures are enough.
Tell me who would be in the room.
Tell me what your teachers are worried about and which subjects they teach. The day is built around that.
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Group size