11ChatGPT Prompts for Teachers

CHATGPT CAN BE a great tool in the classroom for both teachers and students. Chapter 12 discusses how students can benefit from ChatGPT, both in the classroom and outside it—and how their parents can benefit, too.

This chapter is for teachers, walking you through some of the many ways to use ChatGPT to save time while delivering higher-quality tuition, materials, and results. The chapter covers choosing a course topic; writing its course description, course goals, and course objectives; developing lesson plans, reading lists, and activities; and creating tests. You'll no doubt find plenty of other uses.

Before we start, let's talk briefly about the elephant in the room, or at least the heftiest of the pachyderms in the educational parlor: using ChatGPT and other AI tools with integrity.

Make Clear How Your Students Should Be Using AI

Unless your students are doing something purely physical, such as playing sports or laying concrete, chances are that they will be able to leverage AI tools to lighten the burden of their coursework. Given this, you'll want to guide them toward using AI tools ethically and keeping accurate records so they can show how and when they've used the tools in producing their assignments.

Normally, you'll want to discuss academic integrity and AI tool usage with your students at the beginning of the course. This discussion might include the following:

  • Details of the school's policy on AI usage, giving the students explanatory ...

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