AI That Saves Time While Strengthening Teaching Practice
HOW2’s expanded Assistant supports confident teaching decisions with high-quality, professionally grounded AI outputs educators can trust.
TeachingHOW2s today announced an expansion of its AI Assistant, extending support for educators across lesson planning, teaching, learning and professional development. The expanded Assistant helps educators plan lessons, generate classroom resources, and think through professional development needs — while remaining grounded in evidence-informed teaching practice. It is designed to support the real questions educators face in day-to-day teaching, rather than offering generic outputs.
Unlike standalone AI lesson-planning tools, the TeachingHOW2s Assistant is embedded within a wider professional learning platform. This means AI support sits alongside pedagogically grounded teaching practice, reflective tools and collaborative professional learning — helping educators save time while strengthening teaching quality.
Educators using the expanded Assistant can:
Create lesson plans aligned with clear teaching intentions
Generate practical classroom resources that support learning goals
Explore teaching guidance tailored to different learning contexts
Plan professional development activities that connect individual needs with wider organisational priorities
Inform coaching, observation, and professional development activity with context-aware teaching improvement guidance
I was impressed by how detailed the responses were. The guidance is highly practical and grounded in real classroom decisions. The breadth of strategies makes it easy to adapt the output to different groups, settings, and constraints, rather than trying to force a single template into every lesson.
Becki Shaw, Advanced Practitioner and Hair and Beauty Lecturer, Hopwood Hall College
Rather than positioning AI as a replacement for professional judgement, TeachingHOW2s has focused on using AI to support decision-making and reduce workload, while keeping educators firmly in control.
“This isn’t about automating teaching,” said Ian Harris, CEO of TeachingHOW2s. “It’s about giving educators practical support that fits naturally into how they already plan, teach and reflect — without asking them to become AI experts or second-guess the output.”
The expanded AI Assistant supports educators across further education, higher education, training providers and workplace learning environments. It is suitable for teachers at all career stages and is designed to integrate with existing teaching and professional development practices.
This isn’t about automating teaching. It’s about giving educators practical support that fits naturally into how they already plan, teach, and reflect — without asking them to become AI experts or second-guess the output.
Ian Harris, CEO, TeachingHOW2s
The expanded AI Assistant is currently available in beta to all TeachingHOW2s subscribers. To learn more about how the HOW2 Platform can support teaching and professional development in your organisation, please contact Damian Rollinson Small, Director of Partnerships, at damian.rollinson@teachinghow2s.com.
About TeachingHOW2s
TeachingHOW2s is driving innovation in CPD for educators across Further Education, Higher Education, schools, and workplace training. Its digital platform offers a practical, evidence-based approach to embedding transformative teaching techniques, supported by its integrated AI Assistant, which provides real-time, tailored support to help educators quickly adapt strategies to their own classrooms.
Alongside this, its collaborative tools encourage professional dialogue and peer-to-peer learning, helping educators share best practices and build collective expertise. HOW2 makes CPD an everyday, scalable, and sustainable practice — supporting staff in creating engaging, effective learning environments where both learners and practitioners can thrive.
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