The moment pre-service and new teachers step into the classroom, challenges arise.
Some are obvious: disruptions, unfinished lessons, low quiz scores.
Others are slow-building, but more damaging: disengaged students, content errors, or missed opportunities for deeper thinking.
Pre-service programs lay the theoretical groundwork and provide early field experiences. Induction programs cover district policies, curriculum, and offer some classroom support. But when it comes to the real-time, in-the-moment challenges of teaching, new teachers are largely left to figure things out on their own.
This is understandable. After all, how could any teacher prep or induction program provide daily, by the minute, in-classroom support and feedback over the first few years of service?
But what if it was possible for every pre-service and early career teacher to have a partner ready to provide continuous, in-the-moment feedback on teaching’s hardest challenges?
If that sounds unrealistic, it is — or at least, it was until recently. Today, it’s possible with M2: the intelligent co-teacher.
M2: The intelligent co-teacher
M2 is an AI-powered co-teacher that supports educators with real-time, objective feedback and voice-powered instructional support for any subject or learning situation.
Operating quietly in the background, M2 provides instant tips and insights on pacing, clarity, student engagement, and classroom management — helping teachers reflect, adjust, and improve in the moment.
And with just the press of a button and a simple mention of “Hey M2,” new teachers can tap into the limitless knowledge, creativity, and engagement offered by AI.
In practice, this means that M2 gives pre-service and new teachers feedback on every lesson, and elevates their instruction by summarizing key moments, restating difficult concepts, asking questions, translating, and even telling jokes.
These two powerful features, live observation tips and Ask M2, help address several of the most common and difficult challenges faced by pre-service and new teachers, while also addressing some of the limitations of traditional, human-delivered feedback.
The problem with human-delivered feedback
The biggest issue with human-delivered feedback is simple: there aren’t enough people with the time and expertise to provide it. But beyond that, traditional feedback has built-in limitations that make it less effective at supporting new teachers. Here’s why:
It’s not frequent enough.
Coaches and supervisors can only observe classrooms at scheduled intervals, leaving new teachers without support between check-ins. Yet, the challenges they face happen daily — sometimes minute by minute — throughout their first years.
When it comes, it’s too late.
By the time feedback is given, the moment has passed. New teachers often hear about mistakes days or weeks later, making it harder to connect advice to action.
It’s repetitive and draining.
Coaches and supervisors are forced to deliver the same corrections repeatedly — “slow down,” “project your voice,” “check for understanding.” This is frustrating for everyone involved and leads to feedback fatigue.
It creates tension.
Even with the best of intentions, being constantly corrected can feel personal and judgmental, and over time, it strains relationships between new teachers and those supporting them.
It’s disempowering.
When all feedback comes from another person, new teachers can feel like they’re always being told what to fix rather than discovering how to improve. This lack of ownership slows their growth and confidence.
It’s often not well-received.
Without a foundation of trust, feedback can feel like a “gotcha” moment rather than a tool for growth, leading teachers and candidates to reject it and miss key opportunities to improve.
How M2 changes the feedback dynamic
M2 flips this dynamic by providing instant, objective feedback as often as teachers or candidates need it — every few minutes over the first few years of a new teacher’s journey.
With this level of feedback, new teachers can take the best ideas and set aside the rest. Fear of judgement doesn’t slow or cloud the process. The continuous stream of insights accelerates their confidence by empowering them with the right information and helps them make the most of relationships with coaches and supervisors.
This in turn frees coaches and supervisors from the role of critic and allows them to become true collaborators in a teacher’s growth.
Instead of getting stuck repeating the same corrections — “Watch your pacing,” “Be clearer,” “Check for understanding” — coaches and supervisors can focus on big-picture conversations that make a lasting impact like finding new, creative ways to engage modern learners or setting long term teaching goals.
When coaching shifts from corrections to strategic, meaningful growth, new teachers further gain confidence, ownership, and longevity in the profession and whole new levels of trust are possible.
Augmenting new teacher capabilities
M2 isn’t just about feedback. It also augments teaching capabilities, creating new opportunities to help every new teacher become a great one. As an AI tool with built-in guardrails, M2 provides instant, reliable support at the click of a button, opening up entirely new possibilities for teaching and learning.
Here are just a few ways M2 can help:
Explain complex content with confidence
Cueing M2 with the voice command “Hey M2, explain that,” gives new teachers an instant, age-appropriate explanation for tricky concepts. M2 can define key ideas, use analogies, or connect concepts to real-world examples on the fly, giving teachers a reliable way to clarify challenging content in the moment.
Stay focused on learning objectives
With just a few taps, teachers can set a lesson objective in M2. At any time during class, they can simply say, “Hey M2, what’s our objective?” to hear a clear, student-friendly restatement of the day’s goal. This simple routine helps both teachers and students stay focused and on track.
Engage diverse learners with ease
M2 helps teachers support diverse learners, including English Language Learners (ELLs), with real-time translations (“Hey M2, translate that”) and simplified explanations (“Hey M2, restate that for us”).
Beyond language support, M2 assists with differentiation by:
- Scaffolding questions to deepen understanding (“Hey M2, ask me a question”)
- Summarizing key points to reinforce learning (“Hey M2, summarize that”)
- Verbalizing directions to keep students on track (“Hey M2, what are we working on?”)
By offering on-demand instructional support, M2 helps teachers meet individual learning needs and create a more inclusive classroom.
Time is of the essence
For the first time, pre-service and early career teachers don’t have to navigate the challenges of teaching alone.
With M2 as a continuous partner, they receive ongoing feedback throughout their first critical years, along with the instructional support needed to engage every student. Together, these tools give new teachers the room to breathe, focus on their students, and build the confidence to grow into the profession.
And with teacher burnout and turnover reaching new heights with each passing year, there’s no time to wait. Let’s give every new teacher the partner they need today.
