Best ideas and real-life examples of how AI for teachers is making a difference both inside and outside the classroom, how teachers are using AI to save time.
Teachers everywhere are asking, “What tasks can I automate?” and “What’s the coolest thing other teachers have done with ChatGPT, or any AI tool, for that matter?” With a mix of curiosity and caution, many are eager to explore AI for teachers.
Write better ChatGPT prompts with these best practices for teachers. Get better responses, save time, and create just-right educational content for teaching.
ChatGPT for teachers is awesome — but getting that just-right output takes time, practice and effort. Without following the best practices, many teachers struggle to get better responses and end up using mediocre content, spending too much time, getting frustrated or giving up.
Sam Altman’s team have written some guides on better prompt engineering, but their documentation is overwhelming as they wrote it for technical people - engineers, scientists, developers.
So we combined information from OpenAI, passionate ChatGPT users, teachers, and our expertise into an easy-to-follow guide for teachers — with teaching-relevant prompt examples and anecdotes. We couldn’t find a more solid ChatGPT prompt guide made specifically for teachers, so made one ourselves. This guide applies to any ChatGPT alternative like Gemini, Claude, or Copilot.
To get better response from ChatGPT, here are four high-level strategies you need to employ:
You can implement each strategy with specific tactics. The tactics discussed in this article are just ideas for things to try, and by no means fully comprehensive. Feel free to experiment further with your own ideas and find the methods that work best for you.
You will sometimes get even better response by combining multiple tactics.
