OCTEO Fall 2025 Conference
Thursday 3:00-3:50 PM Breakout Sessions IV
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| OATE Meeting & Panel Discussion |
General Session Room
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Susan Kushner Benson, Co-President
Lisa Testa, Member-at-Large
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| The OATE Journal will be presented and discussed. We welcome all OCTEO participates to attend the OATE Meeting. OATE is the only individual membership organization represented at OCTEO. |
| Cultivating Future Ready Classrooms: Integrating AI Literacy and Ethics for Prodcutive Learning |
Training Room 1
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Anastasia Shikanova, The Ohio State University
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| Generative AI is quickly becoming a part of everyday teaching and learning, and while it opens exciting possibilities for personalization, accessibility, and student engagement, it also raises big questions. How do we make the most of these tools without letting them do the thinking for our students? In this session, we’ll explore how educators from any discipline can thoughtfully integrate AI into their classrooms in ways that support, not replace, critical thinking. We’ll talk about what AI literacy looks like for both students and teachers, how to weave ethical considerations into assignments and discussions, and how to design tasks that use AI as a partner in learning. Grounded in current research and real classroom practice, this session offers practical strategies to help educators create learning environments that promote autonomy, motivation, and meaningful use of technolog |
| Forging Critical Thinking Through Lesson Plan Revision: How to Use Revision to Combat an Overreliance on AI |
Training Room 2
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Petra Moran, John Carroll University
Emma Shupp, John Carroll University
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| How can education faculty expect preservice teachers to create high quality lessons on their first try? How can we help future teachers become better evaluators of which HQIM to utilize? At a time when it is easy to ask AI to "create a lesson plan for a second grader who struggles with fluency based on the Science of Reading" and the results are...pretty good, how can we be sure the papers, lessons and units our students are creating reflect a synthesis of what they have learned in our courses? How can we be sure that preservice students write lessons with the students they are currently teaching in mind? How does the ability to create a thoughtful lesson plan differ from ability to craft a good search term in today's current educational ? How can we model that a student's first draft/attempt isn’t often the best? The use of writing to learn is not new, nor is the benefit of revision. This session outlines how two courses (reading assessment and tutoring-based literacy methods) utilized multiple drafts and peer feedback to forge better future teachers – and teachers of writing. |
| Novice Teacher Training: Finding Joy and Forging New Professional Perspectives |
Training Room 3
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Rochonda Nenonene, University of Dayton
Novea McIntosh, University of Dayton
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| The presentation and discussion format offers our current research model accompanied with qualitative exemplars to highlight practices that departments of teacher education can utilize to advocate for equity in the community. The intended learning outcomes for participants are to be able: (1) Engage the researchers’ collective analysis of PLCs partnerships between higher education and P-12 educators around research-based practices to collectively engage in critical community building and solidarity in establishing a stronger equity focused profession. (2) Actively support p-12 teachers in developing cultural awareness, challenge implicit biases and make space for student engagement that elicits joy, and strengthens/supports the self-confidence of students. (3) Share teacher narratives as they advocate for change in curricular practices in their classrooms particularly of underserved and diverse communities, to create a class and schoolwide community that respects and enables students to become independent learners while encouraging and maintaining high quality academic achievement. |
| OCPEA Meeting |
Training Room 4
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Brittani McNeil, President
With guest Tom Perkins, BASA
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| Meeting for members of OCPEA. |
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