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Heather Cowart

Better Your Teaching with These Thirty Teacher Uses of ChatGPT


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As a teacher, we currently have a choice about ChatGPT usage. We can choose to reject ChatGPT technology or embrace it. Without a doubt, I have embraced it! ChatGPT is a valuable time-saving tool teachers can use to enhance our teaching and increase student engagement. So, how can teachers use ChatGPT? Check out the list below of 30 teacher uses of ChatGPT that will better your teaching while increasing your productivity and reducing your workload.


Teacher Uses of ChatGPT:


  1. Answer student questions as a search engine.

  2. Personalize learning for individual students based on interests, learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses.

  3. Generate writing prompts.

  4. Help teachers be more culturally responsive by keeping us up to date on the latest trends.

  5. Provide feedback and examples of commentary.

  6. Suggest corrections for student work.

  7. Find videos, articles, and other educational materials for teaching a topic.

  8. Help teachers make learning more authentic with examples of unfamiliar concepts.

  9. Generate science trivia questions, puzzles, and brain teasers for games.

  10. Develop a list of interesting science facts to grab students' attention.

  11. Provide real-life examples and phenomena for engaging learners in a lesson.

  12. Write science articles and guided reading questions for inquiry about various standards.

  13. Share scientific news of the day.

  14. Create multiple-choice and short-answer questions for assessment.

  15. Find educational and supplemental materials to use for enrichment and remediation

  16. Provide thought-provoking prompts and counterarguments for debates.

  17. Assists teachers with facilitating classroom debates.

  18. Develop lists of creative consequences.

  19. Help students develop their argumentative skills while considering alternative viewpoints.

  20. Generate lesson ideas, lesson plans, or emergency sub plans.

  21. Design simple experiments for investigation and exploration.

  22. Suggest at-home activities for learning to increase parent involvement.

  23. Help practice conversations with students, parents, or co-workers.

  24. Generate datasets for students to analyze.

  25. Create study guides or lists of vocabulary.

  26. Assists in writing emails or newsletters.

  27. Brainstorm ideas for presentations and create outlines.

  28. Generate practice problems (Punnett squares, stoichiometry, Ohm's law, etc.)

  29. Help write recommendation letters.

  30. Create emergency lesson plans.


ChatGPT can be a powerful tool for teachers. Ultimately, we can use it to increase rigor, maximize support, and inspire creativity, all while promoting excellence in innovative ways. How do you use ChatGPT as a teacher? Share some of your teacher uses of ChatGPT below.

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