Teacher
Get your evenings back. Keep your judgement.
AI is genuinely good at the parts of teaching that eat your evenings: a first draft of a lesson plan, three versions of the same explanation, a rubric, a parent email that says the hard thing kindly. It is not good at knowing your students, and it will make up a quote or a source if you let it. Use it for drafts and versions. Keep every decision.
One thing it is not: a grader you can trust on its own. It can draft feedback fast, but it does not know what you taught or what the child can do.
What do you want help with?
Each one is a real thing, done in about the time it says, with the prompt written for you.
Your tools
4, not forty. Each one is here for a reason.
ChatGPT
free planThe one your colleagues already have. Lesson drafts, rubrics, explanations at three levels, all in one place.
Open ChatGPT ↗Claude
free planBetter at long documents and careful wording. Paste a whole unit plan or a policy and ask questions about it.
Open Claude ↗NotebookLM
free planUpload your own curriculum documents and it only answers from those. No made up standards.
Open NotebookLM ↗Watch out for
- •Student names, grades and anything from a student file stay out of every tool unless your school has approved it in writing. Use a first initial or "a student".
- •Check your district's policy before pasting anything from a paid curriculum. Many say no.
- •It will invent a quote, a statistic or a source if you ask for one. Ask for the source, then open it yourself.