AI Literacy, ICT and pedagogical innovation
ChatGPT & Generative AI — Advanced Tools for Teachers
6 days
For teachers who already know the basics of AI and want to go much further. This advanced course develops sophisticated prompt engineering skills, explores the full GPT ecosystem, and builds efficient AI-powered workflows that save significant preparation time every week.
Participants leave with a complete, personalised AI teaching system — from planning and preparation to differentiation, assessment and communication — and the skills to keep evolving as the technology rapidly changes.
Learning Outcomes
Participants to the course will learn to:
Master prompt engineering: system prompts, chain-of-thought and few-shot techniques
Build Custom GPT assistants tailored to your specific subject, school and students
Create complete AI workflows for lesson planning, marking and parent communication
Use multimodal AI: image generation (DALL-E, Canva AI), audio and video tools
Evaluate AI output critically: hallucinations, bias, accuracy checking and verification
Design and deliver a school AI professional development session for colleagues
Programme
ChatGPT & Generative AI — Advanced Tools for Teachers
Monday
Highlands & Cliffs — Thinking at Scale
• Jardim da Serra: chestnut groves and the agricultural highlands — prompting from place.
• Estreito de Câmara de Lobos: Madeira's wine-growing terraces — precision and craft.
• Cabo Girão: one of the world's highest sea cliffs — perspective and systems thinking.
• Evening reflection: what does mastery look like — in a landscape, in a prompt, in a teacher?
Tuesday
Advanced Prompting — Beyond the Basics
• Prompt engineering deep dive: personas, constraints, tone, format and iteration.
• System prompts: creating consistent AI behaviour across a full school year.
• Chain-of-thought prompting: teaching AI to reason, not just retrieve.
• Workshop: rewriting 10 weak prompts into high-yield, classroom-ready instructions.
Wednesday
Custom GPTs & Automated Teaching Workflows
• Building a Custom GPT for your classroom: live construction from scratch.
• Automation: AI workflows for marking, reporting and parent communication.
• AI for planning at scale: generating a full term's worth of resources in one session.
• Peer testing: evaluating each other's Custom GPTs for quality and classroom fit.
Thursday
Multimodal AI & School-Wide Implementation
• DALL-E, Adobe Firefly and Canva AI: visual content creation for every subject.
• AI audio tools: podcast creation, text-to-speech and accessibility applications.
• Video AI: explainer creation, auto-captioning and flipped classroom production.
• Workshop: designing a whole-school AI professional development programme.
Friday
Building Your Complete AI Teaching System
• Showcase: presenting your Custom GPT and complete AI workflow to peers.
• Critical peer review: quality, ethics and real classroom applicability.
• Future-proofing: how to stay current as AI evolves — frameworks, not just tools.
• Planning: designing and delivering an AI PD session for your school team.
Saturday
Certificate Ceremony & Closing
• Presentation of each participant's final project or action plan.
• Peer feedback and recognition of the week's collaborative work.
• Formal certificate ceremony in the Jardim Municipal do Funchal.
• Networking, group photo, and exchange of contacts for future Erasmus+ collaboration.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Course participants will receive training and engage in exercises designed to develop their skills as trainers. The provision of additional materials or resources will be determined based on the course structure and the instructor’s approach to meeting the learning objectives
Course package content:
Services and activities included in the course package are those described above. Please note that accommodation, transport, and meals are not provided.
Cancellation & changes:
Common sense prevails when it comes to cancellations, which are analyzed on a case-by-case basis.