Be honest, how much has AI helped in your back to school preparations?
If it's helped, tell us how and what you're using. We'd love to know and get some tips.
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AI has helped me immensely with streamlining some administrivia. I am teaching two new-to-me history classes this year, so here is what I did:I created a Claude project space for each class.I created a document that explains my teaching, grading, and other philosophies, and uploaded it as an artifact.I uploaded our district's pacing guide, any mandatory rubrics at the state/district level,...
That's a SUPER cool way to use Claude in a way that sort of mirrors Google Classroom. I think it's also important how you've set it up because, assuming it's your personal Claude account, there is never an issue of retaining ownership. Many (if not most) schools wouldn't challenge you there, but this is a cleaner setup and I'm curious to give something like this a try.
I used Brisk to generate some solar eclipse lessons for the first day and added in a Kahoot. Still had lessons to get them thinking and engaged on the first day but on a topic that would be new and topical. Notebook/GeminiLM to take information from a colleague and turn it into an explainer video on how she suggests staff use Google Translate as part of a CPD session. But apart from that, no...
This is a fun question for sure, and I hope folks respond en masse!I just presented at an AI summit a few weeks back and also have an upcoming article coming out in October about AI tools in the classroom. The reason I bring that up is because I've been knee-deep in it all summer and so my back-to-school preparations have included sitting with a Claude premium account and both redesigning some...
It has helped me tremendously. I have been able to create anticipation guides, gallery walk questions based on certain topics, organization, fresh perspectives when my brain is just too tired to think out of the box, etc.
I'm going to be coaching new teachers at our junior high (Grades 7-9) and as we focus on the first 30 days of school, I'm grounding my interactions with our district vision and new teacher induction resources to create developmentally appropriate supports and strategies, as I was a 5th grade ELA/SS teacher for years. Making sure to meet students where they are, as well as creating community,...
Massively. I used CharGPT Pro work account and set up a project to plan my AS ICT course. Between us it created a mock company that has 'issues' the students will work for. It used the school calendar and lessons allocated as well as built in assessment windows and built the curriculum plan. We also built workbooks, I linked it to my Google account and it has created a mock Google classroom as...