What is MyTeacherAide?
MyTeacherAide is an AI lesson planning platform that generates curriculum-aligned lessons, rubrics, and assessments for classroom teachers. It produces ready-to-use planning documents across multiple formats. Teachers spend less time on administrative prep and more time in front of students. The platform covers lesson sequencing, text differentiation, comprehension question creation, and curriculum-based brainstorming. It works through a simple web interface with straightforward inputs.
Features & Benefits
- AI Lesson Planning: generate full learning sequences from curriculum topic, student needs, and teacher input to produce structured, classroom-ready lesson plans.
- Rubric Generator: produce comprehensive assessment rubrics from a task description and learning intentions.
- Question Generator: generate a range of comprehension questions from any input text, calibrated to the task.
- Text Differentiator: simplify curriculum content so all students can access it at the right reading level.
- Curriculum Expert: plan units, learning sequences, and assessment tasks through a conversational AI trained on curriculum documents.
What can MyTeacherAide do?
- Generate lesson plans aligned to the curriculum
- Create assessment rubrics from a task description
- Generate comprehension questions from a text
- Simplify a text for different reading levels
- Plan a unit of work using curriculum documents
- Brainstorm assessment task ideas
- Create a learning sequence for a topic
- Differentiate classroom content for diverse learners
Real-World Applications
AI lesson planning takes the longest part of weekly prep off the table. A teacher can input a topic, year level, and learning intentions and get a full lesson sequence back in seconds. That time adds up fast across a school term.
Differentiating content for mixed-ability classrooms is one of the harder ongoing tasks in teaching. The Text Differentiator handles that by adjusting reading level without stripping out the curriculum content. The same source material becomes accessible to more students with minimal extra work.
Schools and department heads may find the Curriculum Expert useful for planning at a program level. It supports unit planning and assessment design across a whole term or year, with AI lesson planning built around the actual curriculum rather than generic templates.
Teachers new to a year level or subject area can use the Question Generator and Rubric Generator to produce assessment-ready materials without starting from scratch. The AI lesson planning tools provide a professional baseline that can be adjusted to suit individual class needs.
AITE Interview
We’ve reached out to Paul and Jacob for a Q&A to give us more details about MyTeacherAide and its future. Lets dive deeper in the realm of AI in education.
Q: Considering you and Jacob hail from a teaching background, what was the pivotal moment or challenge that sparked the idea for MyTeacherAide?
A: Being teachers, we understand the daily struggles of the educator. Jacob and I are both early adopters and naturally inquisitive people. As we started to explore the early versions of generative AI, we saw huge potential for educators. We were actually flipping burgers on my deck when the idea hit us! Once we got the idea in our heads, we couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Q: Could you shed some light on the AI technologies that power MyTeacherAide, especially those that allow such precise differentiation in text and content creation?
A: We built MyTeacherAide to use an OpenAI API key, but we are currently exploring building our own Large Language Model. It’s also worth noting that we have integrated our own curriculum database, meaning that when teachers ask MyTeacherAide to formulate a lesson or unit plan, our AI isn’t going to hallucinate curriculum standards! This will provide educators with a level of functionality and accuracy that generic AI tools simply can’t.
Q: Can you share a success story where MyTeacherAide made a noticeable difference in both a teacher’s workflow and a student’s learning experience?
A: Sure! It’s amazing just how much time teachers are spending on low-level admin tasks. Let me tell you this – no one gets into education because they love keeping their inbox at zero and writing compliance documents. Unfortunately, that’s what we spend most of our time doing! One teacher in our pre-pilot testing suggested he was saving 3.5 hours in basic admin time a week. For a teacher, getting an extra 20 minutes a week is huge, so saving over three hours is a game changer.
Q: In today’s digital age, concerns about data privacy are paramount. How does My Teacher Aide ensure the security and confidentiality of student information and teaching materials processed through the system?
A: One of the key features of MyTeacherAide is that the data put into our tool is permanently deleted after it has been screened for abuse and misuse. If you put something into a generic AI tool, you don’t know where it’s going or what it’s going to be used for. Our tool affords educators a level of safety and privacy that other tools simply don’t.
Q: Since the platform is in its pilot phase, what kind of feedback have you received from educators so far? Are there specific functionalities they wish to see in the future iterations of the platform?
A: We are getting amazing feedback at the moment. Our Australian trial will start later this year, with North American and Indian trials to follow soon after. As I mentioned, at the moment, we are interfacing with the OpenAI API – Jacob, our CTO, is currently investigating building our own LLM.
We are also investigating a student-friendly AI tool. We are in the early stages of development, and this will become a priority after we have completed our initial pilot testing.
Q: How does MyTeacherAide plan to integrate with existing educational software, LMS platforms, and other tech tools commonly used in educational institutions?
A: Without saying too much, we are looking at some exciting partnerships. Once we have run our pilot program, we’ll be in a position to announce some of these partnerships.
Q: With curriculums currently limited to Australia, India, and the US, what are your plans for expanding to other international curricula? What challenges do you anticipate in this expansion?
A: One of the interesting challenges we have faced so far is getting access to the curricula. Integrating a curriculum into our database is easy on a programming level, but sometimes not so easy from a legal standpoint! There are often copyright and licensing issues that need to be worked through. Building strong relationships with the curriculum authorities will be vital for our expansion.
Q: Looking five years down the line, where do you envision My Teacher Aide? How do you see it evolving and possibly influencing the broader landscape of AI in education?
A: In five years, I would love to see MyTeacherAide being used by 1,000,000 educators. The administrative demands of education are only getting more complex. I’m confident that MyTeacherAide will allow teachers to fast-track their admin so they can get back to what really matters: training and inspiring the next generation.
We thank Paul and Jacob and wish good luck to MyTeacherAide.
