AI Teachers and Education Safety Checklist

Use This Checklist Before Using AI in Teaching

AI can help teachers draft, summarize, organize, and prepare. Before using AI-assisted output with students or families, check accuracy, privacy, fairness, age appropriateness, school policy, and teacher review.

The Checklist

• Workflow: Is AI supporting lesson planning, activities, quizzes, rubrics, feedback, communication, grading support, academic integrity, or privacy?
• Accuracy: Are facts, answers, examples, explanations, and answer keys checked by the teacher?
• Age fit: Is the content appropriate for the grade level, reading level, classroom context, and learning objective?
• Privacy: Did you avoid using student names, grades, accommodations, behavior notes, family information, or records in unapproved tools?
• Fairness: Has the output been checked for bias, accessibility, accommodations, and inclusive language?
• Policy: Does the workflow follow school, district, department, or institutional rules?
• Teacher review: Has the teacher reviewed and approved the final output before use?

The Rule

Use AI to draft and organize, but keep teachers responsible for instruction, grading, privacy, accommodations, academic integrity, classroom context, family communication, and final decisions.