The Changing Hats of Teaching: How AI Can Support a Very Complicated Job
Dr. Gabriel Guillén
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California
Workshop: Friday, April 3, 2026, at 1 pm in Eads 103
The Changing Hats of Teaching: How AI Can Support a Very Complicated Job
This workshop introduces Brisk Teaching and other AI tools through the lens of the “three teaching hats”: curriculum developer, classroom performer, and assessment mentor. Participants will explore how AI can support intentional lesson design, enhance student tasks and real time classroom improvisation, and provide meaningful formative feedback. Attendees will experiment with concrete language activities, reflect on benefits and limitations, and leave with practical strategies to use AI as a thinking partner across planning, teaching, and assessment.
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*The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University in St. Louis is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and Thought; the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies; the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.