Announcing Our Partnership with Noticing: Supporting Teacher Education in a New Age of AI

Noticing is an award‑winning AI mentoring tool which supports teacher sense‑making and problem solving. At the heart of Noticing is Noa, an AI-powered reflective tool that supports teacher learning and reflection. Research‑informed protocols guide Noa to take teachers on structured journeys – from uncertainties that have been noticed within classroom experiences, towards new ways of acting next time around. This helps teachers develop their sensitivity to notice and feel more prepared and empowered along the way.

Noa helps maintain the important distinction between making an account‑of experiences and accounting‑for them, helping teachers reflect more deeply on practice. An “LLM Committee” is consulted to moderate, evaluate, and document mentoring conversations, generating ideas and outputs when called for. When multiple teachers are present, Noa supports colleagues to collectively notice and make sense of shared challenges, running focused, multistep micro‑brainstorming as a neutral guide.

Noticings, meetings, and their outputs can be organised within logbooks and visual workspaces, enabling teachers to make connections, trace their professional development over time, and see the bigger picture. Alongside conversational experiences, the engine inside Noticing also powers individual tasks and analyses – from feedback to academic research on transcripts and other large dialogic datasets.

The protocols for AI‑supported teacher learning have also been collected in the shape of a recipe book, which supports mentors either before or during meetings by suggesting structures, offering ideas, and creating more headspace for care. In the absence of a mentor, both Noticing and the recipes can  support self‑reflection and professional learning.