By : Dusko Preradovic

CEO and co-founder of Scholastro.

You're sitting on your couch one evening, marking your students’ tests, when all of a sudden an email from your principal comes through. “Please come and see me before class in the morning - it's important. We’ll meet at the staff lounge”. “What could it be?” You ask yourself, half nervous and half surprised. “This is strange. I've never been asked to see my principal so urgently”, you think to yourself. You go on marking for another hour, somewhat distracted by the email. 

You arrive at the staff lounge in the morning to find your colleagues also waiting to see the principal. “Why are so many of us here”, you wonder. Your principal enters the room and demands everybody's attention. “Thank you all for meeting here this morning. I've got incredible news for you all. I'm hiring a personal assistant for every teacher in the school. Your personal assistant will take care of your planning, marking, reporting, and other admin tasks. It will cost you nothing at all, but will save you countless hours every week, month, and year.”

“She's joking. Is it April fool's today?” Your colleague beside you whispers. Everybody in the room is silent. No one is sure how to respond to the principal. No one knows if this is real or a joke. Finally Mr Johnson speaks up, “is this what I lost my sleep over? I thought I was in trouble!” The principal laughs, “No one is in trouble. On the contrary, you've all gotten out of some trouble today”. 

Ms Kaur, trying to suppress her apparent annoyance, proclaims “how are we going to afford an assistant for every teacher when we haven't even been able to repair the school bus for the past two months?” “When AI learns to repair buses, that will never be an issue again. We have to wait for that day. Today, though, AI can easily handle 80% of your admin tasks, so we're going to take advantage of that to free you up for your most important role - actually teaching your students”, the principal responds. 

This is the reality of the advent of AI. AI has countless applications in many fields and industries. One of those industries is our industry, education. 20 years ago, having a personal assistant would have cost you at least half your salary. Today, it costs you a small subscription fee each year. In many ways, we are some of the luckiest teachers who've ever lived. 

For so long teachers have complained, rightfully, about ever-expanding admin tasks and excessive workloads. AI is here to help us with that.  AI, however, has to be leveraged in such a way that it doesn't increase teacher workload. If each individual teacher has to prompt AI for every learning intention, every success criteria, every activity, every quiz, every lesson summary, etc, then it becomes counterproductive and could actually increase teacher workload. That's why at Scholastro we've taken great care to deliver all the components of a lesson in one easily accessible place, Orion, where all a teacher needs to do is press ‘regenerate’ if they don't like what they see. No writing prompts, no refining prompts, no having to research how to write prompts correctly. Just accept what you see or press ‘regenerate’. This is how AI will reduce teacher workloads and free them up to teach, and this is what makes Orion the premier AI teacher assistant. 

Sign up for a free trial at Orion today. Start earning back your time, and experience the joy of being one of the luckiest teachers of all time. No more weekends and weeknights spent working away on your couch. Orion will handle that work for you, at a cost far lower than half your salary.