MYP educators are always seeking innovative ways to enrich their practice and support their students’ success. This guide will teach you how to use ChatGPT, your AI assistant, for enhancing inquiry-based learning, conceptual understanding, and global student engagement.
Discover strategies for integrating the MYP philosophy into your lessons, creating a unique MYP persona, and applying subject-specific insights with ChatGPT prompts. Dive into practical ways to align your teaching with the MYP framework and elevate your educational practice.
Inside this guide, you’ll find how to:
- Craft your MYP persona: Discover how to create a carefully crafted persona that is deeply rooted in the IB MYP’s learner profile attributes, ATLs, and assessment philosophy.
- Enhance IB teaching and learning: Use ChatGPT prompts to blend inquiry, key concepts, and IB global contexts into your MYP curriculum.
- Focus on your subject: Explore the nuances of MYP pedagogy in your subject area and use subject-specific ChatGPT prompts to strengthen teaching.
- Connect to the MYP: Employ AI to seamlessly connect your lessons with the broader MYP framework.
Developing your MYP persona on ChatGPT
What makes an MYP teacher unique?
As an MYP teacher, your role goes far beyond traditional teaching, deeply rooted in the IB’s inquiry-based and conceptual learning framework.
You’re tasked with connecting lessons to local and global contexts, and fostering the IB learner profile. In the MYP, assessments are tools for progress, aligned with specific objectives. Embracing these facets of the IB MYP shapes your unique persona.
How can ChatGPT assist you?
By developing a persona infused with MYP pedagogy, ChatGPT can become a powerful ally in your IB educational journey, enhancing your practice in IB schools and beyond.
Enhancing MYP teaching with ChatGPT
With your defined MYP persona, ChatGPT becomes a transformative tool for integrating the MYP philosophy into your classroom activities.
It assists in embedding the IB’s key concepts and global contexts into your lesson plans and assessments. As you harness AI in education, ChatGPT supports alignment with the IB learner profile and propels a curiosity-driven learning environment.
With this guide, you will get all the tools you need to drive:
| Inquiry | Use ChatGPT prompts to create Statements of Inquiry and Inquiry Questions, nurturing a curiosity-driven environment that reflects the IB learner profile. |
| Conceptual understanding | Deepen students’ conceptual understanding by using ChatGPT as your thought-partner to craft engaging learning experiences that resonate with the Key and Related Concepts for your unit! |
| Global Contexts | Design lessons with ChatGPT prompts that help your students have a deeper understanding of the Global Contexts. |
| Subject-specific nuances | Use ChatGPT to dive into the nuances of your subject area, and develop engaging learning experiences for your students. |
| Authentic assessment | Harness ChatGPT to support you in developing tailored criterion-referenced assessments. |
Subject-specific planning and assessment with ChatGPT
How can ChatGPT help us educators understand the core elements of the IB curriculum? By using prompts to apply inquiry, conceptual learning, authentic assessment, and contextualised learning, you’ll gain two key advantages:
1. Align teaching with IB principles
You’ll ensure your teaching methods naturally mesh with the unique aspects and goals of your subject, reflecting the IB approach.
2. Enhance student learning
You’ll offer students rich, subject-specific experiences that are in tune with the MYP philosophy and contribute to development of the IB learner profile.
With our comprehensive resource, you’ll get tools for each subject area, including:
- Customised subject-specific personas: Blend these with the general MYP persona for ChatGPT responses finely tuned to your subject.
- Ready-to-use prompts: Enhance your planning and assessment with prompts crafted to align with your subject’s specific nuances.
- Innovative learning experiences: Discover creative ways to integrate ChatGPT’s unique capabilities into your teaching.
Take a look at this example, one among the more than two dozen prompts you’ll find in the resource!
Prompt:
Provide a specific example of <topic/skill> as a provocation for a number talk among grade <grade level> students. Then, generate a set of <number> questions that will guide students through a number and talk about how they can apply their understanding to solve the problem.
Example:
Provide a specific example of rationalising the denominator as a provocation for a number talk among grade 10 students. Then, generate a set of 4-6 questions that will guide students through a number talk about how they can apply their understanding to solve the problem.
Connecting to the MYP framework
Incorporating the MYP framework into your teaching plans might seem like a daunting task or an additional item on your to-do list. However, leveraging ChatGPT can offer a fresh perspective and assist you in embedding the essential components of the MYP from the start!
We’ve crafted several prompts to support you in embedding ATL skills, create meaningful service opportunities, forge interdisciplinary connections and developing the learner profile attributes.
Here are a few prompts you’ll find in our guide to transform your MYP teaching:
- Develop ATL skills through tailored lesson plans.
- Brainstorm service ideas to apply students’ learning in real-world contexts.
- Design interdisciplinary projects that connect diverse subject areas.
- Create activities to nurture IB learner profile attributes in your students.
Prompt:
You are teaching a <length> unit about <big idea>. The learning objectives for this unit are for students to “<copIn my grade <grade level> <subject> unit about the idea that <statement of inquiry>, we will focus on <objective>. Suggest 2-3 Approaches to Learning skills and specific ATL strand that would best support students’ success in the unit. In a table, explProvide a specific example of <topic/skill> as a provocation for a number talk among grade <grade level> students. Then, generate a set of <number> questions that will guide students through a number and talk about how they can apply their understanding to solve the problem.ain why you chose this specific ATL skill and how it can be explicitly taught within the unit. Below the table, provide a <time allotted> lesson plan for each of the chosen ATL skills to explicitly teach this skill within the context of the unit.
Example:
In my grade 8 English Language and Literature unit about the idea that purposeful use of style and structure helps writers creatively convey their perceptions of reality, we will focus on analysing and producing text. Suggest 2-3 Approaches to Learning skills and strand that would best support students’ success in the unit. In a table, explain why you chose this specific ATL skill and how it can be explicitly taught within the unit. Below the table, provide a 30-minute lesson plan for each of the chosen ATL skills to explicitly teach this skill within the context of the unit.
All-in-all, we encourage you to embrace AI tools like ChatGPT! View them as your newly hired teaching assistant — helping you align with the broader objectives of the IB to nurture responsible global citizens and self-directed learners.
Would your MYP Coordinator also find value in utilising ChatGPT? Pass along this comprehensive toolkit!
