Report: A First Look at Teacher Preparation Program Responses to AI 

By AACTE

AACTE recently partnered with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) to identify members with responsibility over teacher education and to encourage those members to participate in surveys and interviews about how teacher preparation programs are currently integrating artificial intelligence  (AI) into their curricula and instruction.  

The final report offers early insights into how schools of education are thinking about AI and offers recommendations for key stakeholders to accelerate AI integration and instruction within teacher preparation.  

The following are some of the key findings from the report:  

• Schools of education are not likely to move quickly or at a large enough scale to train America’s future teachers in AI without a significant shift in faculty interest and capacity building. 

• With few exceptions, schools of education are just now beginning to put new AI training, curriculum, and coursework into place. 

• Many education schools are more focused on supporting faculty than training future teachers and more focused on dealing with student plagiarism than on a broader vision of how AI could transform teaching and learning. 

• While education school leaders are generally optimistic about the positive potential of AI in education, faculty indifference or resistance could impede their ability to adapt, making it harder to prepare future K-12 teachers for the realities of AI. 

Read the report on CRPE’s website.

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