I did the letter to the parent. I guess my challenge was how to ask AI the written question with my concerns. When I opened up my web browser with the school computer I was blocked and could not get access. I turned to my phone that works with Gemini and I used the microphone and talked into Gemini. This was much easier, I did not have to figure out the right way to type in the question. All I had to do was speak, wait for the answer and speak again to make changes. Success!
The challenge was to narrow down the exact topic I wanted to cover in my lesson plan. At first, AI was creating a generic lesson plan and after a couple of prompts it produced a more specific and detailed lesson plan.
On success was creating a five-question quiz in a few seconds on one of the CCSS standards in ELA. One of the challenges was making sure that the questions were directly related to what was taught in class. I think that it is important to check and review everything and make sure that it really something that your students can be successful at.
The challenge was to adjust the suggestions made form the LLM to fit my class and the needs of my class. The success was to have used a LLM to create a lesson plan.
The success I had when writing the parent email was being very specific with details. I requested an email to a parent asking their child to be able to watch a video for sex education. The students are in the 3rd grade. ChatGPT did an excellent providing appropriate language. Instead of using sex education, AI used human development. The email was written with delicacy.
One of the challenges I had was how to start the idea you want AI to write a lesson for. I ended up putting the information. from one of my current lessons, and had AI write it to make more sense to a student. I did succeed by asking it to further explain ideas for a better understanding of the grade level. And I liked that it gave an assessment.
I used ChatGPT to write an email template to parents. I wanted to update them on their childās progress in our online program. Overall, the email was decent. It included some information about the program, which I had not included in my prompt, so it was neat to see that it knew about the program. I did have to change it, as AI assumed that students were making adequate progress, and I wanted an email for students that were behind.
I tried to have the AI write a lesson plan. It did a relatively good job of creating a lesson that fit my class format with all of the components I would want and aligning it to the standards. The biggest challenge was getting enough detail to make it usable. Originally the plan was very vague, saying things like students will do lab activity with no actual activity. With some additional prompting I was able to get it to provide specifics.
The challenge I had in communicating services offered by the library was being specific enough in my prompt. Initially, the email focused on general library services, rather than school library services. Refining the prompt, it did not focus specifically on high school library offerings, which again, was a shortcoming on my behalf. Trying to properly word the prompt, point it towards certain specifics, while not writing most of the email myself, was challenging in this first endeavor.
The success I had was actually getting a mostly useable email to push out to staff and families, though. by providing a couple specific ideas and asking for similar suggestions, copilot was able to create an email that actually fit services I currently offer or SHOULD be offering but havenāt finalized the processes for yet. In these early stages, it is definitely a trial and error process, but there is a growing list of applicable uses that I am pleasantly surprised by.
AI has been a great starting point, but it does take a lot of editing and clarification to shape the email, assignment, etc., to what is required for the class at the time.
Using a book my class has recently read, I asked Gemini to create a formative assessment based on the text and the 4th grade Science standards. Just because I was curious, I asked it to do it in 4 different ways: 1st as a Waldorf Teacher (Iām currently teaching at a Waldorf School), then as a Montessori teacher (because I also am familiar and interested in their way of doing it), then as a dynamic teacher using best practices, and finely a standard assessment with a paper based test. I was actually really impressed with the result. Plus it gives me as a teacher multiple ways to approach assessing my students learning without feeling like thereās only one right way. Plus it gave teacher notes and suggestions and other ideas.
one challenge I had was getting the right prompt into the platform to get the best results possible. the lesson plan was overall a success.