一位教师分享了她使用ChatGPT辅助教学的经验。她最初对使用AI感到担忧，但最终发现ChatGPT极大地提高了她的工作效率。通过ChatGPT，她能够快速定制课程、生成学习指南和测验，甚至在家中辅助孩子学习。尽管AI无法替代教师在情感支持和个性化辅导方面的作用，但它为教师节省了大量时间，使其能够更专注于学生和教学工作。文章强调了在教学中谨慎、有效地利用AI，以提升教学质量和效率的重要性。

🤔 作者最初对使用ChatGPT感到焦虑，担心违反职业道德，但最终克服了这种担忧。

💡 ChatGPT被用于多种实际教学任务，包括定制课程、创建学习指南、生成测验和辅助家庭作业，显著提高了教师的工作效率。

📚 作者使用ChatGPT为不同年级的学生创建学习资料，例如针对“局外人”一书的学习指南，并取得了积极的教学效果。

⚠️ 作者强调AI无法完全取代教师的角色，尤其是在情感支持和个性化指导方面，但承认AI在减轻教师工作负担方面的价值。

✅ 作者在教学中谨慎地使用AI，并计划继续探索AI在教学中的应用，以适应不断发展的教育环境。

I'm a teacher who started experimenting with ChatGPT.AI helps me create study guides, bar graphs, and quizzes.The technology will never eliminate all of my duties, but it's made me a more efficient teacher.

I was anxious the first time I dabbled in ChatGPT. That's probably an understatement. I actually feared that someone was watching over me, lurking in cyberspace, waiting to sound alarm bells when I typed a certain phrase or combination of words into the blank search bar.

I'm a journalist and journalism educator. I teach kids about sourcing and how to avoid plagiarizing material. In my media ethics class, I ask them to sign a contract saying they won't use other people's material.

So what the heck was I doing playing with AI? And what if I actually liked it?

Spoiler alert: I did, and it's kind of awesome.

ChatGPT has become helpful for me

Teachers have focused so much on how our students might use AI to cheat that we may have forgotten how it can help us in the classroom and at home.

I'm using AI (specifically ChatGPT) in practical, everyday ways.

I recently completed a 16-week intensive ELA and math tutoring program in our local school district. The material I was given for the program didn't work well for my kids, so I ran it through ChatGPT to make it more digestible.

With AI, I can customize my lessons — quickly. Tens and ones review? No problem. Bar graph with ice cream flavors? Done. First grade fractions? Been there, done that, too. I've even started playing around with Bingo designs for fun.

I'm also using AI to play teacher at home. When my 6th grader needs to review states of matter or the history of ancient China, we turn to AI together. ChatGPT whips up multiple-choice quizzes (with answer keys) faster than I can make dinner. The same thing goes for studying India's monsoon season. Once, I even asked AI to create a quiz on how to spot fake news.

I recently looked back on my ChatGPT history and realized how much I had used AI to generate study guides, like the one I made for "The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton. My son got an A on that quiz.

I don't think AI will ever replace me

As much as I've come to rely on AI, I've learned that it isn't going to solve all my classroom conundrums.

For example, it won't comfort a crying student because he or she did poorly on a test and fears her parents will ground her. AI isn't going to help me decide when a student is sick enough to visit the school nurse. It's not going to help me figure out why a student understands one concept of math but can't grasp another.

But given all the complexities and challenges of being an educator right now, I'll take the help, even if it means double-checking all of the facts.

I'm leaning into AI, but cautiously

I still feel a little guilty when I ask AI to check a sentence's grammar or to eliminate redundancies in my writing. I'm not sure if it's because I asked for help or because the work is often great.

Still, ChatGPT has made me more efficient as a teacher. I can easily whip up study guides that benefit my students and tailor lesson plans to them. All of this frees up time for me to connect with my students more easily and focus on other tasks.

I'm glad I took a leap of faith, and I plan on exploring AI as it continues to grow.