Generative AI Prompts for Educators
Here are a few of my favorite
A quick Google search of AI prompts will pull up tons of results. Some are better than others, but I wanted to highlight some of the prompts I like the best and can be really beneficial for educators.
From Teachermade:
Shorten Or Simplify Text: “Simplify this text passage for a [#] grade audience.”
List To Tables: “Turn this list into a table.”
Interactive Geography Quiz: “Develop an interactive geography quiz where students ask questions about countries, and ChatGPT provides answers. Students guess the country and its features.”
Literary Character Interview: “Have students prepare questions as if they were interviewing a character from a book. Use ChatGPT to respond from the character’s perspective.”
Language Learning Simulation: “Design a simulation where students can ‘travel’ to a foreign country and have conversations with locals in the language they’re learning, with ChatGPT playing the role of the local.”
Historical Newspaper Project: “Students write articles about key historical events as if they were reporting in that period. Use ChatGPT to provide additional context and quotes.”
Descriptive Paragraphs: “Assign students a vocabulary word and have them write descriptive paragraphs incorporating the word. ChatGPT can provide examples of such paragraphs.”
Vocabulary Stories: “Challenge students to create short stories that incorporate a set of vocabulary words. Use ChatGPT to help refine the stories and expand on their vocabulary usage.”
Word Puzzles and Riddles: “Create vocabulary-based puzzles, anagrams, or riddles. Students solve them and then discuss the meaning of the words with the help of ChatGPT.”
Word of the Day: “Introduce a new word each day and ask students to define it, use it in a sentence, and identify synonyms and antonyms.”
Quick Math Challenge: “Present a math problem that reviews a concept from the previous lesson. Students solve it within a time limit.”
Inference Exercise: “Share a short paragraph with implicit information. Ask students to make inferences about the characters, setting, or events.”
Grammar Corrections: “Provide a sentence with grammatical errors. Have students identify and correct the errors.”
Al for Education has an entire Prompt Library for Educators broken down by all prompts, assessments, communication, for students, lesson planning, professional development, special needs, and administrative.
Alice Keeler also has a great list of 100 Prompts for Teachers to Ask ChatGPT which includes such ones as:
Respond to this angry parent in a polite tone to let them know I am trying my best. [paste email]
Create a newsletter for parents to let them know of upcoming field trips and how to send their child to school dressed for warm
Generate open-ended questions for classroom discussion.
Create a rubric that aligns with the learning objectives.
Create a reading about (you name it) at a first grade level.
Follow up with “rewrite it at a 6th grade level.”
Follow up with “rewrite it at a graduate level.”Can you provide help on how to differentiate instruction for students with special needs, such as visual impairments or ADHD?
Can you suggest some modifications that can be made to the text in order to make it more accessible to struggling readers?
Give personal feedback to student [paste student comment here]
Write 50 different feedback comments that are similar to “good job”
Can you suggest some specific areas where students have demonstrated strengths and areas for improvement in their work?
OpenAI the makers of ChatGPT has released a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom which includes some suggested prompts.
Let me know what prompts you use and also do you think we need a list of ones for libraries, and librarians? If so should we build one? Let me know either by commenting here or on our Facebook Group.