"What's the future, what are the uses, and what are the concerns about AI?"
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Matt Doering is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Lakeside Lutheran High School. He recognized a big need at his school: to not only understand the concerns around AI in education, but to use AI effectively to empower teachers in the classroom.Â
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The BIG Problem with AI
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For many educators today, AI is a scary unknown. How are teachers and administrators supposed to handle it? Should we police it, prohibit it, ignore it and hope it goes away?
ChatGPT is here to stay, and every day it gains both popularity and power in the modern world. As educators, we need to lead the way, not run away!Â
AÂ Solution for Schools
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ChatGPT for Teachers is a practical online course designed for busy faculty and leadership teams at the high school, middle school, and elementary levels who want to understand and utilize the benefits of artificial intelligence but simply don't know how.
In this easy-to-follow program, you will learn how to use ChatGPT to improve curriculum, enhance instruction, and elevate the school experience for students and teachers alike.
ChatGPT for Teachers can help
Our course offers two distinctive paths:
For Individual Teachers: This course is the smartest continuing ed choice you'll make all year. Transform your curriculum, instruction, and assessment methods with our seven-module course, featuring concise yet impactful lessons, engaging videos, and practical exercises that will open your eyes to the GOOD you can do with AI.
For School Teams: Redefine professional development with our team course. Explore ChatGPT together over three workshop sessions or seamlessly integrate it into your school year as a monthly meeting. The team version includes a leader's guide that ensures seamless facilitation.
Course Benefits
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#1-Â Short, doable lessons
Each module in the course is broken down into short, 8- to 15-minute video lessons.
#2-Â Immediate implementation
Lessons offer practical ways to implement ChatGPT into classroom learning immediately.
#3-Â Accessibility
Accessible to the entire team, anytime, for the lifetime of the course.
#4-Â Team cohesion
Since everyone learns together, there’s no need to get people up to speed.
#5-Â Facilitator-friendly
The leader doesn't need prior expertise in AI, just a passion for education.
Husband and wife Rick and Katie Muchka took ChatGPT for Teachers simultaneously. Rick, a high school teacher, had been regularly using ChatGPT in his classroom. Katie, a middle school teacher in a multi-grade classroom, knew a little about the program, but considered herself a beginner.
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“Even though I had been using ChatGPT, I learned much more about the program’s capabilities. I especially enjoyed the curriculum, instruction, and assessment best practices that were reviewed and shared. I feel inspired and excited about what’s ahead in my classroom!” —Rick
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“I loved the short lessons, but even more than that, I loved the fact that what I learned helped me the very next day in my multi-grade classroom. The investment I made in the course reaped benefits right away.” —Katie
How the knowledge is delivered
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Video Lessons
Each module contains multiple brief video lessons, each packed with step-by-step details on how to maximize ChatGPT's potential.Â
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Practice Exercises
Application exercises are provided in a Google Doc "workbook" for each participant. These can be completed during your group training meeting, or independently.
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Group Discussion
Built into each lesson are questions and scenarios to discuss as a group, empowering your faculty to work together toward common goals and policies regarding AI.
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Facilitator’s Guide
Each team purchase includes a facilitator's guide. This guide provides helpful information about how to schedule the course for your team and most successfully complete it as a team, including discussion questions for the facilitator.
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Let’s take a look at what’s inside
Introduction:Â Goals and Setup
In this section we'll establish common ground and goals as educators, and acknowledge that each teacher may have unique views or apprehensions surrounding the use of AI.
Module 1:Â Chat GPT Background
Where did ChatGPT come from, and how did it explode onto the scene? Here we’ll establish the foundation of what ChatGPT is and how to navigate important features of its website.
Module 2:Â Creating Effective Prompts
There are effective and ineffective ways to utilize ChatGPT. Here we'll explore the guiding principles for getting ChatGPT to produce what you want and avoid what you don't.
Module 3: Enhancing Curriculum
This module helps teachers understand two important aspects of a quality curriculum and how ChatGPT can be used to both evaluate your current curriculum and develop a new rigorous and relevant curriculum for students.
Module 4: Enhancing Instruction
Effective instruction looks different today than it did even ten years ago. This module explores aspects of impactful 21st century instruction and important ways ChatGPT can help teachers in lesson planning and development, including student differentiation.
Module 5: Enhancing Assessment
ChatGPT can help teachers be more confident in the ways they assess their students’ learning. After completing this module, teachers will be able to create a variety of formative and summative assessment instruments that can be used in the classroom immediately.
Module 6:Â Enhancing Teacher "Extras"
Most teachers are also involved in some type of school extracurricular. There are times when these added activities and responsibilities require just as much creative brain power, which can be draining. But what if ChatGPT could help with these extras, as well? This module explores the model’s potential to enhance all of the extras in your school day.
Module 7:Â Conclusion and Next Steps
The final module provides suggestions for how your school and staff can use ChatGPT to rethink how you educate your students. Change like this is not easy, but ChatGPT makes the transition to highly effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment far more accessible.
"Taking this course has been 100% worth the time I've invested in it."
Wendy Bixby shares why ChatGPT has been worth her time as a high school Spanish teacher, volleyball coach, and musical director.
Enrollment is now open!
Purchase access for your entire faculty or individual use. ChatGPT for Teachers is designed for both group and independent learning.
Don’t forget! ChatGPT for Teachers may qualify for Title Funding in your district.Â
Team 50
$7,495
One-hour planning call with Ryan, leader's guide, plus licenses for up to 50 people
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$9,495
One-hour planning call with Ryan, leader's guide, plus licenses for up to 75 people
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"ChatGPT is my new best friend!"
We love hearing how the ChatGPT for Teachers is helping teachers like Amy Melso save time and improve instruction.Â
ChatGPT for Teachers impacts everyone
Teachers
Finally understand how to make AI work FOR you. Save time, bring classrooms into the future of education, and serve as a role model to students for how to adopt technology for good purposes. Most importantly, you'll discover how to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment... as well as student learning... across every subject!Â
Administrators
Enjoy peace of mind knowing that your teachers are being equipped to handle AI, one of the biggest revolutions in education of our time. Assure parents that your teachers are trained in AI to meet student needs. And easily integrate this job-embedded professional development program into current meeting schedule days. No planning required!
Students
Students get a better education from the curricular, instructional, and assessment improvements available when their teachers utilize AI... in EVERY subject and discipline! Plus students will benefit from seeing their teachers serve as examples of responsible AI users. They'll know how to use AI for effective purposes because it's being modeled for them.
Parents
Many parents are just as confused about AI as teachers are. By implementing ChatGPT for Teachers, you'll help parents build trust in your school, administrators, and teachers, knowing that they are all equipped with the most advanced educational tools possible! Plus parents will be assured that their students are truly receiving a 21st-century education.
Meet the course creator
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Ryan Kirchoff serves as Instructional Coordinator at Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton, Wisconsin. Prior to his current role, he served as Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the PreK-12th grade program at Divine Savior Academy in Doral, Florida, and as Athletic Director at California Lutheran High School in Wildomar, California.
Ryan is passionate about student learning and helping school ministries utilize the power of AI to improve education. He has conducted multiple webinars on helping teachers understand how to use ChatGPT more effectively, and has presented at high schools on harnessing the power of ChatGPT to provide more effective classroom instruction.
Ryan is married to Dana (founder of Blueprint Schools), and enjoys golf, cooking on his Green Mountain Grill smoker, collecting bourbon, and Wisconsin sports of all kinds.
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