Instructional Planning: ChatGPT

Since its introduction into the education space, educators have begun to utilize ChatGPT as a resource to support lesson planning, assessment and development of classroom activities.

  • “If you’re an educator who’s been using ChatGPT (or other generative AI) in some way for planning, instruction, assessment, and/or student learning etc., please reply with what you’ve been trying so far. I’d love to hear it and & I’m sure that many could benefit.” —Educator
    • “It’s giving me great unit outlines with activity and extension ideas that hadn’t occurred to me!!” —High School Foreign Language Teacher in Illinois
    • “I had it generate some fun activities for German and French classes, help create a lesson plan for German AP class and write an outline for a book for new foreign language teachers. All pretty good stuff. A bit too general, but useful as a starting point.” —High School Foreign Language Teacher in Tennessee
    • “Using it for student scaffolding-project was TED talks. Had ChatGPT create each student’s first draft of speech. They used these to identify sub topics for research and pulled hooks and calls to action. Felt super successful and good way to integrate convos about ChatGPT ethics” —Educator in New York
    • “My favorite use so far is I’ll have my students write a sentence or two to summarize a piece of writing. I’ll then have ChatGPT do the same. Just for fun, I’ll pick 5-10 of those responses and see if the students can find the bot. It’s harder than you think:” —Elementary Teacher in Kentucky
    • “Creating practice questions, formative assessments, and scenarios for application. The extra time has given me the chance to be more creative and use ChatGpt to research interests and questions for our AP Psych concepts.” —High School Social Studies Teacher in Maine
  • “I tell my grad students… USE CHATGPT! USE IT! But you can’t just copy paste slap it down. You have to analyze it. Ask yourself.. is this true? Is it engaging? Do I need more? How do I communicate with it? Using ChatGPT requires Critical Thinking skills.” —Math Teacher in Kansas
    • “Yes! I think we need to embrace the use of this tech precisely to engage students in creative & critical thinking…the format of a ‘5 paragraph essay’ is now in a tool like spell/grammar-check…so how do we humanize that framework & make it ours?” —Educator
    • “But would you agree AI is improving very quickly, so it might not be long at all before more and more students will have less and less to offer that improves on the output?” —Educator in Missouri
  • “One of our school’s special Ed teachers approached me asking for ideas on how specific Artificial Intelligence tools could help his students. Any ideas?” —High School Teacher in California
    • “I don’t know for sure, but if you enter a student’s special needs ChatGPT might offer an IEP with recommendations.” —Teacher in New York 
  • “I asked #ChatGPT to write an IEP goal and it did not disappoint!” —Educator in Georgia