Welcome to Sustained Integrated Professional Development

Covering the final part of their paper, Mat and Phil first outline the concept of GenAI Sustained Integrated Professional Development and then discuss how language teachers can build their AI competence through the seven guiding principles of GenAI-SIPD.

• Understand the basics of GenAI to make informed use decisions.
• Experience GenAI from the language learner perspective.
• Testing AI-mediated tasks and materials in the role of your students
• Practice learning an L2 yourself using GenAI

• Start small and look for uses of GenAI that have immediate value for your current teaching…