How Should a First-Year Teacher Use AI?

In this episode we explore what thoughtful AI use looks like through the eyes of a first-year teacher preparing to enter the classroom.We speak with Stefanie Stoj, a recent Wesleyan University graduate and Teach For America corps member who is beginning her career teaching seventh-grade ELA in the South Bronx. Stefanie shares how she used tools like ChatGPT and Claude during summer teaching and lesson planning.Topics covered:How a first-year teacher is preparing for her seventh-grade ELA classroomUsing AI to anticipate student misconceptionsUsing ChatGPT and Claude as lesson-planning toolsWhere AI can save teachers time without replacing professional judgmentThe risk of gradually outsourcing more thinking to AIWhat Stefanie learned about AI use as a college studentBalancing efficiency with the individual needs of studentsHow new teachers can develop their own judgment while working with AISource:https://www.sbecacs.org/