I’m new here and not sure what this offers, so I’ll start with sharing about myself and how I use it. If anyone has any input, feedback, or knows of others working on similar projects, I’d love to hear about it or help in any similar projects.
I am a special education math teacher at a high school level. I teach resource Algebra I and Algebra II. I also am a coteacher in three different general education classes. Two are Algebra I with freshman, and one is Algebra II with Juniors. Here is how I use Chat GPT.
I don’t used A.I. to save time as much as I use it to increase accuracy and process copious amounts of data to come up with ideas that could better help the students. A lot of this has to do with priming. I used code names for each student and make sure to remove any personal information before entering anything into a thread for a student. I create two threads for each one of my students, one Math GPT thread and another General 4o thread. I also create a separate Math GPT thread for the entire class to help with deeper understanding of each student, create groups, and worksheets for said groups. I copy and paste data between related threads to take advantage of the benefits of the Math GPT, and yet have the overall general processing power of Chat GPT 4o. I use the math bot to process pictures of the student’s math assessments as well as having discussions about patterns in the student’s work and what we can do to help them. I have created graphic organizers, so I have prewritten statements I can paste into each thread to tell the Math GPT Bot and the general thread exactly how to understand my graphic organizers. This helps it look at their work and work with me to get the best feedback. Then I paste the feedback, with the pictures of the ungraded assignment into the student’s individual thread Chat GPT 4o as well as into the class thread. In the individual Chat GPTG 4o thread, I want to be aware of all of the data in the previous IEPs as well as the MET Evaluations. Typically, I just make both of the MET and IEP into word documents and then use find and replace all of the personal information with general information and codenames. This takes about 30 to 40 minutes to do for both documents. That was really long, and Chat GPT often forgot about the PDF document within hours after uploading it unless I take an additional 15 minutes to ask it questions about everything so it adds it to the thread. What I’m currently thinking of doing is using the temporary option in a thread to have Chat GPT pull all of the important information from the IEP or MET by uploading the document, and then asking it a series of questions that I have prewritten. This shortens it to 5 to 15 minutes for both documents.
If i’m struggling with a student, or even if they have behavior problems or something happens, i make sure to make an entry into their thread. When I am getting ready to write an IEP, I will take all of the feedback and data from the student’s other teachers and then I’ll share all of it with the thread. Each assessment and benchmark I give the students, I process with the Math GPT for detailed feedback and then the feedback and assessments, I copy and paste into the main Chat GPT thread. When I write the IEP, I tell it to use information from assessments and teacher feedback to make decisions about the student, use the MET evaluation data to give our statements context, and reference the OLD IEP when writing to show growth, regression, or the lack thereof. It does a phenomenal job, so much so that I recently got feedback that my IEPs are too detailed, have too much data, and that I need to make it simpler. With that feedback, I’m just telling Chat GPT to write it in parent friendly wording on the level of a 4th grader. I think that will make a difference.
Since I have taken the time to prime a thread for each student, I have to assess my students on the IEP goals every month and then write progress reports each quarter. It used to take me forever to find math worksheets specific to each student. NOW, because I have the threads primed with all of the information, I use the Chat GPT, and sometimes the Math GPT bots to create the individualized worksheets. The long part comes in grading them, because I don’t just grade them. I take a picture of it first, white out the student name using an iPad and write the code name for the student over it, and have the Math GPT bot analyze it. Then I’ll grade it myself and I’ll type out my own feedback and share it with Math GPT. Then I’ll take all of the feedback from myself and the Math GPT bot and share it with the main Chat GPT thread for each student. When it comes time to write the progress report, and everything is primed, then I just ask it to write one for each goal for each student, one by one. I read it over and then change the code names back to real names before putting them into IEP Pro.
I’m also a CoTeacher and as such, my math knowledge, while strong, is no where near the understanding of these general education math teachers. What I’ve done is that I have a thread created for each of the CoTaught classes that I teach. I upload the notes that the teacher gives to the students. I also upload worksheets that the students do. I use it to, first, help me understand how to do the work according to the way the teacher is teaching it. I also ask the Math GPT bot to help me break it down into systematic steps and ask it for questions that can help build a good foundation for understanding it. I will also upload the PDF of the chapter from Eureka Math 2 to the Chat GPT 4o and have it understand what we’ll be working on within a given month. I use the questions that it gives me to create math games, like on Quizizz. Quizizz has its own A.I. helper, which I’ve found unreliable. I will use the questions that Math GPT gives me to create a question. Then, I’ll copy and paste the description of how to solve the problem, into the solution break down of each problem. I encourage my students to play those games over and over again to gain a stronger foundation. It’s a great study tool guide. My CoTeachers are amazed and are using my games for their other classes. I also have shown school at a PD some of the benefits of using Chat GPT. I only had a few minutes to talk, but a few teachers came up to me afterward and were excited. I talked them into becoming Plus members. Within the Special Education Department, I refer to Chat GPT as my new girlfriend. I dumped Siri because Chat GPT is far more intelligent and sexy. They laugh, but they’re all using Chat GPT to assist with their work as well… not to the level that I am because they’re looking to save time, but we’re all benefiting. I’ve shared this stuff with my school psychologist and she too is using it to save time. IT’s truly an awesome tool…. Especially for a single special education math teachers. ;).
I was pumped when o1-preview came out and couldn’t wait for it to become part of the platform so I can increase my accuracy. Unfortunately, school teachers don’t make enough money to afford $200 a month. 
I’ve tried alternatives. Magic School A.I. has a lot of people talking, but I used it to write one IEP and I had to remind it several times to stay on prompt and correct things. The insight was nowhere near as good at 4o. Additionally, when I tried to have it create worksheets, as a math teacher, I couldn’t get it to create simple math worksheets with the same problems for the students to practice over and over again. The worksheet model has too many bells and whistles and makes it unusable to me. I can simply just tell Chat GPT to create me a worksheet with X number of problems doing this sort of thing, etc., and it creates a simple worksheet. I do talk with Gemini at times if I want a simple google search and am too afraid to use an interaction on my Chat GPT plus account because it’s limited. I’m starting to try out Perplexity, but its’ capabilities, especially at being able to read PDFs and images, and then reason and logic with me are limited compared to Chat GPT.
On a personal level, during this last election and being devastated, I’ve been able to use Chat GPT to process things I’ve heard to cut past the hyperbole and lies, and get a more nuanced perspective. It really is an amazing tool.
What do you think the chances are that affordable pricing for teachers and non-profits to use Pro, will be anytime soon?