Tamil Nadu Trains Government School Teachers to Build AI-Powered Lessons, Starting with Physics, Chemistry and Maths

Tamil Nadu is moving Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the computer lab into everyday teaching in its government schools. The state’s teacher-training body is equipping postgraduate (PG) teachers in government high and higher secondary schools to use AI tools to build their own animated videos, audio clips, images, songs and simple puzzle games, so that difficult concepts are easier for students to grasp, according to a report in Dinamalar on 28 October 2026.

The training is being run by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). In the first phase, it covers PG teachers of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Officials said the district-level sessions are expected to be completed by the end of October, and teachers will be expected to start using the approach in their classes from November. Teachers of other subjects will be trained in later phases.

From state-made videos to teacher-made content

The move builds on four years of ICT-based teaching in Tamil Nadu’s government high and higher secondary schools. Under that model, a state-level team produced a dedicated video for each lesson and sent it to schools, and teachers used it to explain the topic in class.

The new approach shifts content creation to the teacher. Instead of relying only on centrally produced videos, teachers are being shown how to use widely available AI tools, including Google’s video tools, NotebookLM, Claude and ChatGPT, to create learning material that matches their own way of teaching. By the end of the training, each teacher is expected to produce AI-generated video content of their own.

Why it matters

State programme coordinators told the newspaper that every teacher has a different teaching style, and that adding AI to it can help students understand lessons more easily. Concepts in science such as force, energy and distance are more likely to stay with students when taught visually, they said, and the same animation-led method can be used in mathematics.

For a state school system, the bigger shift is in who makes digital content. Training subject teachers to produce short, curriculum-linked material lets lessons be adapted to a particular class rather than a single state-wide video. The test will be in the classroom from November: whether teachers have the time, devices and connectivity to make and use this content regularly, and how the state guides them on accuracy and responsible use of generative AI tools as the programme widens to other subjects.