AI in the High School English Classroom

As teachers, we all know that timely, targeted feedback is the best way to improve students' writing. But what happens when you have 100+ high school students across four English classes, and you JUST CAN'T KEEP UP? You know that you're behind, and your students aren't benefitting the way they could. But you also can't sacrifice more personal time to get those essays turned around in under two weeks. A.I. can help. I'm going to walk you through using ChatGPT to aid you in quickly giving valuable feedback to students on their writing, reducing your marking load while ensuring that students have the opportunity to improve on each draft of their writing, moving toward mastery. Come listen to how I doubled the amount of feedback that I give, halved the amount of time that I needed to work on it, and kept all of my marking during school hours! While using A.I. to help with feedback can be a controversial topic, I am going to approach this session from the assumption that you are interested in using this valuable tool. My focus in this session is not going to be on arguing whether we should use it or not; I am going to show you how you can employ its capabilities. 17 Participants