You don't need to be an AI expert to get real value from AI. You need one small job on your to-do list and about five minutes.

In the first episode of The Empowered Educator Podcast, I share five simple ways I use AI as a teaching assistant in my own classroom. None of them are big or flashy. They're the everyday tasks that quietly eat our week, and in every one, you're still the trained educator making the professional calls.

In this episode:

• Brainstorming and getting started. Get past the blank page with lesson hooks, discussion questions, exit tickets and real-world scenarios you can contextualise for your class.
• Creating and adapting resources. Turn a text, a video or a tired old worksheet into quizzes, scaffolds, vocabulary activities and more, without starting from scratch.
• Differentiation and accessibility. Adjust reading levels, add sentence starters and build extension questions so more students can access the same learning.
• Feedback and assessment support. Build comment banks, exemplars and student-friendly marking criteria. I also explain how I de-identify student work, and why privacy and school policy come first.
• Tackling the little jobs. Draft emails, notices, agendas and newsletter content, and fix the awkward sentences that take longer than they should.

Five minutes saved doesn't sound like much. Five minutes saved several times a week adds up to time back for your students, your own growth, or just being a human outside school hours.

So start small. Pick one job, try one idea, and see what it gives YOU back.

Want the video version and slide deck from this episode? They're included for Empowered Educator Hub members: www.tristanheron.com/hub

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