AI could be used to analyse recordings of lessons delivered by new teachers, to give feedback on what they are doing well and what could improve, as part of a National Institute of Teaching (NIoT) project. Raj Chande, senior research associate at the, said early career teachers鈥 (ECTs) lessons would be recorded and uploaded to 鈥渁 secure tool that鈥檚鈥onverted into a transcript鈥. 鈥淭hose transcripts are going to be analysed by鈥elevant experts who are going to be able to say 鈥榯hat鈥檚 great questioning there鈥 or鈥 鈥榯hey shouldn鈥檛 have started that explanation with that much disruption going on鈥.鈥 The feedback given by human experts will then be used to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model, to 鈥渞eplicate the judgement of experts鈥. 鈥淎t scale, mentors and ECTS [could] be given semi-automatic feedback, all quality assured by our team development experts.” Chande said that if the project is successful, teachers could be “given instantaneous, semi-automatic feedback without anybody actually having to come into the room necessarily.鈥 He said the scheme is not designed to 鈥渟ubstitute鈥aving a conversation. But we’re trying to reduce the constraints on time and trying to increase the breadth of lessons that are observed.鈥 But the project would allow the establishment of 鈥渁 database of teacher practices鈥 comprising 鈥渢housands of lessons鈥. 鈥淲e [will] know what鈥檚 being done and what鈥檚 not being done quite so well.鈥 The project was discussed at the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) annual conference in Birmingham today. Chande told Schools Week work on the project will begin this academic year, with around 12 ECTs testing the recording tool to ensure it works. Far higher numbers would then record their practice next academic year, to build up more than 1,000 lesson transcripts. It is understood conversations are currently underway around the legal aspects of the programme. Calum Davey, executive director of Research at the NIoT, said: 鈥淥bservation and feedback are central to teacher development. In this project, we are investigating whether AI can be trained to identify classroom practices well enough to be useful for supporting teacher development. 鈥淲e鈥檙e committed to understanding what the benefits of AI tools are and equally committed to asking the difficult questions about bias, judgement, and the kind of role we want technology to have in our schools.鈥
E Vine 18 October 2025 Al is computer generated: computers are only able to work on data they are fed. If the input is rubbish and the agenda of those who feed the information in flawed then whatever AI generates is flawed rubbish that reinforces the bias and myopic thinking that it receives. OFSTED and the UK education model is not for purpose. We have a regimented system that it based on a batch production factory model, current teacher training eliminates creativity and reinforces the narrow silo’d subject departmental system. This proposal is a misuse of AI, far better to use the power of AI to tailor learning to the needs of individual students.