TEACHERS using AI sounds crazy, right? Almost all schools prohibit the use of AI for assignments. So, for everyone wondering how teachers use AI, the ways they teach with it, and how they can use it to see if students, like you, are using AI for any assignments, keep reading.

Teachers spend hours and hours each week on non-teaching tasks, including writing emails and grading assignments for all classes. Wonder how teachers grade some of their students’ assignments? It’s AI. How else do you think teachers are grading an average of 100-150 students’ assignments continually? It takes a long time for a teacher to grade one assignment, let alone 150.

Did you know that teachers were already using AI before you found out they used AI? Teachers used AI to improve their teaching methods and streamline work.

Teachers also use AI to support students whose first language isn’t English. They also use it to improve their presentation skills. The teachers always have perfectly designed presentations for your assignments because they use AI to help with them. Failing an assignment that you used AI on could be because your teachers use AI to detect your AI! Because you definitely have no idea what half of the strong words on your assignment even mean.

Teachers can use AI to generate quizzes and tests for students based on students’ notes, but they should always check for accuracy. The process is much faster and easier than creating assignments from scratch. Other teachers are using AI for lesson inspiration, drafting activities and discussion questions, and even creating different materials to support diverse learning.

Something that caught my attention when asking our teachers at Granger about how they use AI was that one of the English teachers said she uses AI to make assignments for particular things she taught her students. When she told me, it all made sense. She already had enough things to do and assignments to grade, so making a presentation and making it look nice and simple made me wonder how they did it. She told us it’s pretty simple, and it helped her move from one unit of work to another.

In conclusion, YES, teachers use AI to make their jobs easier, and they’ve been using it longer than you might think.

No matter how advanced AI becomes, it will never replace the human connection that teachers bring to the classroom, build relations, inspire curiosity, and create safe environments that support learning for the students.