hi everyone
um I want to take a moment here today to
share some of what I've learned uh about
using chat GPT for educators I've spent
a lot of time this week
um playing around with it figuring out
the capabilities of it for specific for
the job of an educator and I can't say
enough about how revolutionary this
really is one of the biggest complaints
that you get from teachers is there's
too much to do and there's not enough
time to do it right we are we are
buckets full of water and water just
keeps getting added but it never gets
taken out right and for the first time
in my 15 or so year career of Education
this is something that has the potential
to greatly reduce the water in the
bucket and I'm going to show you one
example here so
um I'm traditionally an English teacher
and one thing I love to do as a teacher
is to do station work
um it's great for engagement it's great
for classroom management it's great for
differentiation
um however it is very time consuming to
create all the materials so it's the
kind of thing you might do every once in
a while but it's hard to maintain the
energy to to keep it up again and again
and again
um so here's one way that I found that
could be a huge Time Saver so that I
could more frequently use this great uh
this great uh type of teaching so I'm
going to say
um let's say for example
I'm an eighth grade English teacher and
we're reading the novel chains okay so
I'm gonna say uh
and we we just read chapter seven at
home and I want them to engage with uh
the the text from chapter seven so I'm
going to say create five
stations
or
an eighth grade
English class
Common Core aligned
um
related
to
chapter seven of
novel chains now I could just stop there
but I know like one skill I need my
students a couple skills I need my
students to work with so I'm going to
include so I'm going to say uh include
stations for uh sentence variety
uh using context clues
for vocab uh you know this is a book
that has a lot of archaic language in it
so it can be really tough for them uh
using context clues for vocab and making
entrances
see what it comes up with here
so what it's going to give me here is is
an outline all right so
um which is great uh it's gonna give me
five different examples of things that I
can do uh with these five stations and
if I wanted to I could just stop here
right like so the first one students
will work in small groups to rewrite a
passage from the chapter seven of chains
using a variety of sentence structures
they will then present their revised
patches to the class and explain their
choices or number three making immerses
students will work in small groups and
make inferences about the chapter's
thoughts and feelings this is a good
outline but it's not specific enough to
be really helpful for me so I'm going to
go a bit deeper here and I'm gonna say
uh choose a passage
and choose a passage from
chapter seven and create
prompts for
station three
all right so
it has pulled a quote directly from the
book
all right and I've read this book myself
many times so I know that this is
something coming directly from it so so
there's the passage for me I don't have
to dig through the chapter to find it
um and here's some uh here's some
prompts I can use so really I could just
copy paste this onto printable material
and have it ready for them there
station
um
I could do the same thing for let's say
for sentence variety I could say choose
Passage
for uh station one
all right so it's pulling here I'm
seeing uh
I'm seeing a compound sentence I'm
seeing a simple sentence I've seen
another simple sentence
um
okay so it's giving me
it's giving me an example of uh of a
passage that uh didn't have and then was
revised to having more
um sentence variety that's good I can
work with that
um now another issue you run into is you
have your low performing students who
require differentiation
so for the uh let's say summarizing
I could say create
differentiated which I never
correctly create differentiated material
for station for
uh Lexile level 300.
all right and
so providing a summary at Lexile level
300 for students who may need additional
support
because
all right now
so this is giving me a summary uh but
what I could do instead is I could say
uh provide passage from
uh chapter seven and I'll have it give
me a passage
and then I could say revise passage for
uh 300 Lexile level
and it's gonna rewrite that passage from
the book
on a lower Lexile level so my students
that need differentiation can do the
exact same lesson uh with more
accessible text
um this is just one example of just how
absolutely uh time-saving and
groundbreaking this is
um if I come up with other when I come
up with other ideas I can post more or
uh if you have questions about other
things that you'd want to see mapped out
um I could uh I could help out with that
so let me know I hope this is helpful to
all my teacher friends out there