Let’s be specific here, because “AI-powered teaching” gets thrown around so loosely it’s practically stopped meaning anything.
Here’s what generative AI is genuinely good at: turning a clear instruction into a fast, usable first draft. Tell it you need a CLB 6 reading lesson on workplace safety, five comprehension questions, and a short vocabulary list, and you’ll have something workable in under a minute. Feed it a rubric and a stack of student responses, and it’ll draft individualized feedback in roughly your tone, faster than you could type it yourself.
What it can’t do is know your students. It has no idea that one of them freezes up when called on, or that Thursday’s class needs a slower pace than Tuesday’s, or that a certain joke lands with one group and falls completely flat with another. It isn’t in the room. It carries none of the responsibility for getting a lesson right. That part is still, and always will be, on you.
Think of it less as a replacement and more as an assistant who never gets tired of producing a first draft, but whose work you still have to read, fix, and make your own before a student ever sees it.