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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming education, including how teachers teach. Using AI, teachers can tailor learning experiences to individual student needs, making education more engaging and effective. In addition, it offers innovative tools for streamlining administrative tasks, which frees up valuable time for teachers to focus on student engagement and instruction.

This blog post aims to explore and showcase a variety of some of the best AI tools for teachers that can significantly benefit them in their daily tasks and enhance teaching practices. Additionally, my hope is that teachers are inspired and empowered with real-world examples, practical strategies and thoughtful considerations for integrating AI in the classroom.

AI As a Teaching Assistant

Imagine having a tireless teaching assistant who never calls in sick, never misses a deadline, delivers consistent support and is available 24/7 to provide you with real-time support and insights. Furthermore, imagine having access to tools that can help with everything from student engagement and lesson planning to accessibility and grading. That’s the promise of AI in the modern classroom.

Since its release to the public in 2022, has remained one of the most popular AI tools used by teachers. It’s is a generative tool that uses natural language processing to understand and generate human-like responses, and it remains highly effective in its ability to assist with writing, answer questions and support a wide range of educational and professional tasks. 

One of the most significant benefits is that it can greatly enhance the accessibility of classroom materials for diverse learners by personalizing content and supporting different learning styles. For example, ChatGPT can produce written transcripts of audio and video lessons for students with hearing impairments and audio-friendly lesson plans for students with visual impairments. In addition, it can create flashcards and other personalized study aids for students with learning disabilities and for English language learners. It can even translate classroom materials into students’ native languages.

While ChatGPT is a wonderful AI tool that is adaptable across many domains, is an increasingly popular teaching assistant designed specifically to help educators streamline their teaching processes. It contains a set of over 60 AI tools for education for assisting with lesson planning, classroom management, parent communication, IEP writing and other types of content generation. One of the most innovative features is the syllabus generator, which enables teachers to modify their existing syllabus or create an entirely new one in minutes.

I had the opportunity to experiment recently with MagicSchool.AI and other highly regarded AI tools for teachers, including and . Here are just a few examples of how educators can utilize these tools as teaching assistants in very practical ways:

• Lesson planning: Teachers can type in a topic and grade level (for example, geometry and fifth grade), and the AI output will include a full lesson plan with objectives, activities and discussion questions.
• Differentiation: Suppose a teacher needs to modify a reading passage for diverse learners or English language learners. Tools such as MagicSchool.AI can rewrite the passage at a simpler reading level and add vocabulary support.
• Resource creation: Teachers can very quickly create formative quizzes with short-answer and multiple-choice questions, along with an answer key.

AI for Improving Efficiency

AI tools can significantly improve teacher efficiency by saving time on repetitive and routine tasks, as well as supporting differentiated instruction. 

Saving Time

Instead of spending 30-60 minutes on writing an update to parents, a teacher can prompt ChatGPT to write a weekly newsletter for first-grade parents summarizing our reading, spelling and math activities.

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction is a teaching approach that adapts instruction to meet diverse student needs. AI tools like Eduaide or Diffit can adjust the reading levels of texts and create scaffolded questions. If you are interested in a practical exercise, I recommend trying the following:

Upload an article on a topic that you are discussing in your classroom, and then ask the AI tool to generate three versions: simplified (for struggling students), on-level and advanced, each with tailored comprehension questions.

AI Writing Tools for Teachers

AI-powered writing tools offer a wide range of benefits for teachers. For example, tools like ChatGPT can help ensure messages (such as emails, newsletters or parent updates) are written clearly and without errors. In addition, AI tools can be used to help review students’ written assignments for issues pertaining to spelling, style or grammar. This affords teachers the ability to spend less time correcting basic errors and more time focusing on critical thinking and content.

At ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ (ACE), we have partnered with , an AI writing assistant, to bring to our entire community, including our faculty. Grammarly offers real-time writing assistance, spell checks and other advanced proofreading and editing capabilities across various platforms, including email, documents and more. It also assists in improving grammar, spelling and punctuation, providing a valuable resource to elevate the quality of written communication.

Personalized Learning

One of the benefits and best practices of AI in the modern classroom is personalized learning.

Best Practices for Using AI Tools

As the educational landscape continues to rapidly evolve, it will be critical for teachers to stay informed about the latest trends and best practices for integrating AI into teaching. With that in mind, I want to recommend three resources that are free and incredibly helpful:

• The course is a self-paced, online training developed by Google in collaboration with MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education). It’s designed specifically to help teachers use generative AI tools to enhance teaching and learning, while promoting ethical and responsible use.
• The is a resource library and training space that contains tutorials, hands-on exercises, real-life case studies and self-paced professional development modules. It’s designed for a wide audience, including teachers who want to use AI tools effectively in their classrooms.  
• Carnegie Learning has published that highlights current use cases, ongoing concerns and thoughts about the future of AI.  

AI Isn’t the Teacher, You Are

Revolutionizing your classroom with AI means fundamentally transforming how teachers design, deliver and assess student learning by thoughtfully integrating AI tools and capabilities. I hope you feel inspired and assured that AI is not designed to replace you. After all, at its core, education is a very personal and relational construct.

The very best teachers commonly share certain essential qualities, like empathy, patience, creativity and flexibility. Instead, I encourage you to think of AI as your co-teacher who works behind the scenes to make your job easier.

I want to conclude this blog by offering you 3 practical strategies that you can use for integrating AI into teaching today.

1. Try using a tool like ChatGPT to generate a discussion prompt, lesson plan or quiz questions.
2. Sign up for Grammarly and see if it helps improve your emails to colleagues or your newsletters to parents.
3. Experiment with Diffit by trying to turn topics into interactive lessons or differentiated reading materials.

FAQs About AI Tools for Teachers

Can AI replace teachers?

No, AI cannot replace teachers. In fact, teachers are irreplaceable. While AI can handle some of the more repetitive and time-consuming tasks, it cannot replace the teaching, mentoring and relationship-building that occurs between students and teachers.

Do teachers need to be tech-savvy to use AI?

No, not necessarily. In my experience, the best AI tools are designed to be user-friendly. For example, tools like Grammarly and MagicSchool.AI use very simple and intuitive designs. In addition, there are many free courses to help teachers build confidence and skills at their own pace.

Is it ethical to use AI in teaching?

Yes, when used thoughtfully and transparently, AI can be a wonderful tool in creating more effective and engaging classrooms.

In addition to my role as Assistant Provost of Doctoral Research and Student Success at ACE, I serve on an external  dedicated to improving education through the responsible use of AI. As part of this council, I am focused on developing national best practices for the ethical and effective integration of AI in education. While there are several ethical considerations to keep in mind, I have seen the power of AI to elevate teaching, learning and student success.

What is the future of artificial intelligence in teaching?

The future of artificial intelligence, and educational technology as a whole, is poised to be revolutionary, with deep impacts on how teaching is delivered, personalized and scaled.

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