AI Introduction:

What GenAI is and Why it Matters in Career and Technical Education

AI CTE Project

Part 3: Discipline Specific

Track A - Advanced Manufacturing

Track B – Health Sciences

Track C – Business Information Technology and Others

Welcome – Do Now

Create your Name Tents

Module 3: Leveraging AI

Instructional Strategies in your Discipline

Presenter 1

Introductions

Presenter 2

(If Applicable)

OVERVIEW

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Norms for Guiding Our “WORK” Together

Outcomes:

• Apply the RICCE, EVERY, and TrAIT frameworks to structure AI prompts that support instructional design.
• Leverage AI to integrate high-impact instructional strategies into lesson and course planning.
• Develop a draft instructional lesson that demonstrates how AI can help ensure best practice instruction and high student engagement.

Guiding Question:

How can AI be used to integrate proven instructional frameworks and best practices to make complex content clearer, more teachable, and more meaningful for learners?

Building Relational Capacity & Community

1. Table Groups Introductions
2. Report out

Module 3: Leveraging AI

Instructional Strategies in your Discipline

KWLA- Instructional Best Practices

Reflect on Modules 1 and 2

• Think specifically about the frameworks and instructional strategies.
• Reflect on the conversations we just had about go to strategies.

Add to the Best Practice Lesson Design and Instruction KWLA- Just the K and the W.

• What do you know (K column)
• What do you want to learn (W column)

Share your K and W at your table.

• Add any new insights gained from the group (any column).

Report out and continue to add to your K & W columns.

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Alpha Groups Community Builder

• Form Alpha Groups by first names.
• The first four will form Group 1, the second 4 will be Group 2, etc.

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• In your Alpha Groups:
• Introduce yourself
• Share one high-engagement strategy you have used in your lab/shop—something that keeps students “in the work.”
• After each person shares, determine if students were asked to make a choice, collaborate, find relevance, or was challenged.
• After last person, groups discuss patterns and connections to student engagement and how it changes from the lab to classroom instruction.

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• Debrief by sharing ideas with whole group.

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TrAIT, RICCE, and EVERY Recap

RICCE

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From the Lab to the Classroom:

Translating Engagement

Reflect on your own CTE lab or hands-on learning environment.

• Engagement:
• What specific activities or moments ignite student engagement in your lab?
• What makes those activities so effective?
• Translation:
• How might you bring those same elements of engagement into your classroom?
• What would that look like in practice?
• Workplace Readiness:
• How do your lab and classroom activities help students build both content knowledge and workplace skills (communication, problem-solving, adaptability)?
• Write about one lab-based activity that deeply engages your students
• Elbow partner share and be prepared to report out.

Engaging Instruction

Individual AI Exploration : Think-Ink Pair-Share (TrAIT=AIx):

• Think and Ink
• What are the critical components of an engaging lesson in the Advanced Manufacturing classroom?
• What best practice instructional strategies engage students in the classroom?
• How can you integrate those strategies during classroom lessons/lectures?
• Share
• Table discussion
• Be prepared to report out.

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AI Prompt-Using the RICCE Framework

Prompt your AI tool (TrAIT AI+):

• Sample Prompt:

You are an expert instructional designer with a thorough understanding of best practice teaching and learning. List and describe the essential parts of an engaging lesson plan for an <Your Discipline> course (in the classroom). The lesson should be student-centered, include multiple instructional strategies, and formative assessment.

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AI Prompt-Using the RICCE Framework

• Capture the AI’s response (in your notes).
• What do you notice (add to your notes):
• Which elements align with what you already know and/or do?
• What made the response student-centered?
• What instructional and formative assessment strategies were included in the AI response?
• Are there any surprises or “extra” components that AI suggests? What are they?
• What, if anything, challenged your thinking or gave you reason to disagree?

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AI Prompt and Lesson Design

Small-Groups Compare & Contrast

• In table groups:
• Share your AI-generated lists.
• Create a T-Chart on chart paper and list:
• Consistent/Common elements, instructional and assessment strategies (show up across multiple AI responses).
• Unique Parts (only in some responses).

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AI Prompt: Collaborative Synthesis

Groups use their findings to build a shared “Lesson Plan Outline” that includes:

• Core elements, instructional and assessment strategies (most consistent across AI findings).
• A short description of each part.
• Examples of how students will be engaged

Discuss and verify (TrAIT=AI+) and use EVERY.

• Reflect on how this is connected to and could be used during your classroom instruction (not in the lab).

Add your group’s Lesson Plan Outline to the Padlet or Google slide assigned to your group.

Report out

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Lesson Planning: Debrief

• Open
• Norms, Learning Outcomes and Guiding Question
• Relational Capacity and Community Building: Reflect and collaborate
• Set up Notetaking
• Engage (combining strategies for increase impact)
• Direct instruction and student engagement
• Strategies:10-2, notetaking, collaboration, communication, critical thinking (Case Studies, 5 Whys), assessment (formative and summative)
• Close/Debrief the Learning
• Summary, reflection, application
• Strategies: 3-2-1, GIST, Exit Ticket

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Instructional Strategies Recap

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AI Application: �Designing an Engaging <Discipline> Lesson

Form groups of 3–4 and select a specific topic related to Advanced Manufacturing. Design a 2-hour lesson that the core components. Use AI (TrAIT = AI+) to generate ideas for strategies that support engagement in each phase of the lesson.

• Opening: Hook students, activate prior knowledge, establish relevance.
• Engage:
• Direct Instruction: Deliver essential content in short, active segments (10–2 principle).
• Collaboration: Include opportunities for students to work together, problem-solve, or share.
• Critical Thinking & Communication: Build in strategies that require analysis, questioning, or explaining ideas.
• Close:
• Reflection: Provide students time to connect learning to personal/career context.
• Assessment/Debrief: Include a closure that allows you to gauge understanding and highlight takeaways.

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Debrief: Quickwrite and Share

Quickwrite

• How did AI help ensure strategy integration?
• How do the strategies help ensure student engagement?
• How can you use this in your own class and lessons?
• How do the frameworks help ensure appropriate AI use in teaching and learning?

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Share

• Bend the Line
• Parallel Lines

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New Learnings or takeaways (L column)

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Things you will Apply

(A column)

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Question or Wondering that remains (W column)

3-2-1 Reflection: Reflect and Add to the KWLA

Table share

Think: What is one thing you will apply in your <discipline>’s instruction?

Report out

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Wrap Up and Next Steps

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What additional support will you need to use AI in your instruction?

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Thank you for your time and engagement!

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