AI School Report - Ok or not Ok?

No they won’t you silly goose.
There are only so many hours in the day.
If the classes are a third of the size they would have to teach a third more lessons to have the same amount of pupils.
Goodness me I hope nobody paid for your education.

'There are only 30 in a class' 🤦‍♀️

Have you ever written an and of year report? I have...for the past 30 years! Each one takes me around an hour...sometimes longer depending on the actual child (the trickier ones can take 90 minutes 😵‍💫)

I haven't used AI and I don't use a 'statement bank', which are also popular with some teachers, as I think this takes longer! At the very minimum I've spent 30 hours writing them, another 10 or so sourcing photographs of each child through their year in my class (my school policy on reports is a minimum of 4 photographs illustrating their 'learning journey'), several hours proofreading and editing and a couple of hours printing and binding (we bind them all!)

So, in all, around 50 hours of extra work. This is more than a full time equivalent 'working week' for the average person. Only...we do this in our own time, as we are already doing a full time working week teaching!

I'm NOT moaning...I KNOW it's my job...but for the love of god, think about what you are saying before posting such a comment! 'There are only 30 in a class!' 😵‍💫

My DH is a primary school teacher and he used AI to help write his reports this year. The head teacher apparently recommended all the teachers use it and he found it shortened the process no end. Usually he spends all of May half term writing reports. This year it took him a day to do the initial AI bit and another day to tweak them all. I can’t see him doing it any other way now.

the school is as large as a large secondary in terms of numbers

the year groups are as large

but they are broken down to 18-20 classes according to sets

so the teachers see many sets of 18-20
they will have same number as a state school teacher

Oh dear, you do think you are clever don’t you.
I am not an idiot, subject specialist write 1 comment per child but teach more children.
Primary teachers write many comments per child.
It is a massive job but smaller classes mean less to write either way.

I actually said in my post or 30 per class in secondary.
It’s not a contest but say a subject teacher teaches 25 lessons a week probably sees each class 3 times a week so 8 classes. 8 x 18 is 144 comments.
I’m doing 14 comments per report so 420 comments.
Just accept it is massive job, it’s longer than my dissertation.

they don’t teach ONE class a week 😆

different year groups
different sets

they have to write for many many many more than 30!

these are subject teachers in a secondary school

each class has between 18-20

Then you create your own bank of comments

as am i

And I would put money on the teacher not having to write 30 of them if primary or 30 per class if secondary.
I only had to write 10 or 15 mine would be personalised and detailed too.

Not all reports are written from a bank of comments. My school dies not provide a bank; we have to write them individually.

Anything of note that I write, I write myself and then ask copilot to "write it better". I imagine that would show as 100% AI written. I don't blame a teacher for that tbh.

@itistooeasy yes for reports. Maybe not every teacher because it is personal choice whether to use it or not. I certainly used it for rewording sentences or if I couldn't think of a particular phrase. Other teachers used it to write the bulk of the paragraph then just tweaked it or added a few personalised words. Others didn't use it all. This is a top private school and SLT didn't have any issues with us using AI.

Thank god I don't teach there!

for reports?

my son goes to a top public school and his reports are very very evidently personalised and detailed and very helpful and 3x a year

A colleague once suggested pre-printed slips with the words NO BLOODY GOOD and we just deleted as appropriate.

😂

All teachers will eventually use AI, even if they aren't right now. The top schools in the country are already using it.

I don't think you can be sure its AI generated but this is the way reports are going.

My reports in the 70s had one sentence ( max 2) and a paragraph from the tutor. Usually quite harsh which I don't recommend but I do think expectations are so high of the quantity of feedback required that they've had to lose quality to make it manageable.

I think we should revert to that level of personalisation and make it real.

I feel like I should have used inverted commas for reign now. 😂

Yes you did make me consider free reign and how that works really well too!
Less free reign at least now with a government to keep the monarchy in check!

My primary reports consisted of one sheet of paper with 'good' or 'excellent' for each subject and 'X is a pleasure to teach' in the comment box! Imagine the red-faced horror parents would greet that with today!

Some teachers

AI is here to stay so everyone needs to get used to it. Teachers are actively being trained in AI and even encouraged to use it. AI is already being used to plan lessons, make resources, and yes write reports.