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:
- Write clear instructions
- Provide reference text
- Split complex tasks into simpler subtasks
- Give models time to “think”
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.
