Artificial intelligence is no longer a thing of the future. Although there are both enthusiasts and detractors of AI, it cannot be denied that it is present in classrooms. If you’ve decided to give it a chance, here are some ideas on how to use AI for teachers — don’t miss them!

But before we start, if you’re interested in this topic, here are some other contents you might find useful:

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Context: AI in education

Artificial intelligence has stopped being a vague uncertainty about the future and has become an increasingly accessible tool in the educational field. Just as in other sectors (such as healthcare or finance), in the classroom AI is making a strong entrance to offer solutions to everyday problems: from personalizing learning to optimizing administrative processes.

In education, AI should not be seen as a trend or a teacher replacement, but as an ally that makes it possible to detect learning patterns, analyze student progress, or adapt materials to their individual needs. When used wisely, AI is not an enemy but a tool that simplifies and enhances the teacher’s work, opening the door to more personalized, student-centered teaching.

AI for teachers: what kind of tools do I have at my disposal?

Nowadays, using AI for teachers is no longer limited to chatbots that answer questions. Those days are behind us, and the range of options is growing, covering solutions for almost any school or classroom need. We can group them into three main categories:

1. Generative AI: Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini o Copilot, which allow you to create content — texts, images, presentations… In education, they can help prepare explanations, examples, assessment resources, or adapt materials to different levels and educational needs.
2. AI for school management: Platforms like Additio App, which integrate smart features to save time in administrative tasks. A clear example is the AI timetable generator, which allows you to create timetables for the entire school in just minutes.
3. AI for creating and adapting materials: Applications that generate images, videos, or infographics. Very useful for working with students with special educational needs or to diversify classroom activities. Some examples include Dall-e or Canva’s image generator.

However, before integrating any of these tools into your teaching practice, it’s important to consider the following:

• Data protection (GDPR): If AI processes student information, it must comply with current regulations. Therefore, it’s essential to choose tools that guarantee the security and privacy of all data. For example, Additio App’s timetable generator complies with all European data protection laws and regulations.
• Ethical use: AI can contain biases or errors. This is why there must always be teacher supervision, and the teacher has the final say.
• Avoiding dependency: AI should complement, not replace, the teacher’s role. The goal is to free up time and add value, not to replace the act of teaching.

Idea 1: Improve attention to diversity

We cannot ignore the importance of attention to diversity in a competency-based assessment context. In the classroom, every student is unique: different paces, learning styles, and even special educational needs.
As teachers, our challenge is not only to teach everyone but also to assess in a way that leaves no one behind. Here, the combination of AI tools for teachers and assessment tools can make a big difference.

In this regard, Additio App’s assessment radar help us a lot. These dials are visual representations of students’ competency development levels. Instead of seeing only a grade, we can graphically see how each student progresses in each competency, compared to the group’s performance.

What can we do with them?

• Detect each student’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Clearly see if a group or a student needs to strengthen a specific competency.
• Justify curriculum adaptations or reinforcements.

So, where does artificial intelligence come into this?

Once we have the student progress data thanks to Additio App’s dials, we can use AI tools, like chatbots, to get guidance tailored to each situation.

For example, we could use a prompt like this:

AI will analyze the situation and propose specific activities and adaptations, which we can then adjust based on our experience and the student’s context. This way, we combine the precise visual analysis power of Additio App with AI’s ability to generate ideas and resources in seconds.

Mireia’s case

Mireia, a Language teacher and 2nd-year secondary school tutor, detected through Additio App’s dials that a group of students had a low level in the writing competence. Using this data and an AI tool, she obtained differentiated activity proposals for each level, which allowed her to work with everyone in class, respecting their starting point and promoting progress for each one.

Idea 2: Save time on school timetables

If you’re a teacher who has ever had to organize a school timetable, you know it’s one of the most tedious and stressful tasks at the start of the school year. Hours and hours of fitting pieces together, trying not to break the fragile balance between subjects, teachers, and available spaces.

AI can change that completely. With Additio App’s AI timetable generator, you simply enter the conditions: subjects, available teachers, breaks, specific constraints… and in just minutes, the system generates the entire school timetable, ready to be reviewed and applied.

How does it work?

1. You enter the conditions: each teacher’s availability, subjects, classrooms, specific limitations.
2. The AI processes all the variables and automatically generates an optimized timetable, which you can customize if you wish.
3. If there are last-minute changes, such as unexpected substitutions, you can adjust the timetable in a couple of clicks, avoiding redoing everything from scratch.

Key advantages of Additio App’s AI timetable generator:

• Time saving: generating a timetable no longer takes weeks or even months of work, now you will have it in minutes!
• Reduction of human errors: AI detects conflicts before they appear, which allows making the necessary adjustments in real time.
• Greater flexibility: quick adjustments in the face of unforeseen events, such as a teacher’s sick leave or the closure of a classroom for maintenance.

The case of Eurofitness edu

At the Eurofitness edu center, the management team traditionally spent more than two months scheduling the year’s timetables. Between teachers who only dedicate a few hours to teaching, subjects that combined theory and practice, and the fact of sharing spaces with a sports facility, making the timetables became more and more complicated each year.

With Additio App’s timetable generator, they uploaded all the data and, in a short time, had an optimized and fully functional timetable.

Idea 3: Create teaching materials quickly and easily

One of the most obvious advantages of using AI for teachers is the ability to generate teaching materials in a matter of minutes, without always having to start from scratch. From worksheets or infographics to quizzes or presentations, AI can help you create resources that you then adapt to your style and your students’ needs.

With generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini, it is possible to:

• Elaborate clear explanations and summaries of concepts that are complex to explain in class.
• Think of ideas, materials and exercises to do in class.
• Prepare quizzes to assess knowledge of a syllabus, which you can later include in Additio App.
• Generate visual schemes on a specific topic.
• Generate ideas about items to assess.
• Obtain suggestions for grammatical and syntactic correction.
• Explore different artistic techniques and periods in an original way (Art and visual arts).
• Create examples of visual materials to learn vocabulary (Languages).
• And much more!

It is important to emphasize that AI does not replace the teacher’s creative work, but rather speeds up the process. You decide the approach, you validate the information and you adapt the content to your classroom reality. AI offers you the structure and the time you need to focus on the most important thing: teaching and accompanying students in their learning process.

The case of Luis

Luis, History teacher in 2nd-year ESO, wanted to prepare a unit on the Industrial Revolution. He used an AI tool to recreate historical images and scenes of the era, which allowed his students to visualize what the world was like at that time and understand social and technological changes more tangibly. Afterwards, he integrated this material into his teaching plan within Additio App, thus facilitating the organization and monitoring of the unit.

Idea 4 to use AI for teachers: Adapt materials and generate personalized itineraries according to special educational needs (SEN)

Caring for students with special educational needs (SEN) not only implies adapting a text or changing the format of a resource. It also involves designing a learning path that truly responds to their level, pace and objectives. Here, AI for teachers becomes a key tool to save time and offer more appropriate support to the students who need it.

With AI you can:

• Adapt materials: simplify texts, create easy-to-read versions, add pictograms, generate audio descriptions or apply dyslexia-friendly typography.
• Generate personalized itineraries: design learning routes adapted to the level, pace and needs of each student.dissenyar rutes d’aprenentatge adaptades al nivell, ritme i necessitats de cada estudiant.

In this latter case, the idea is clear: we provide AI with information about the student’s academic progress, and it selects, organizes and recommends activities, resources and specific exercises that will help them achieve their learning objectives.

We will achieve this especially with the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini.

Suggested prompt:

Generate a personalized learning itinerary for a student of [course] who is learning [topic] in the subject [subject]. The student has difficulties in [specific area] [reason]. Design a 5-step plan with activities, resources and recommendations adapted to their level. Include a brief description of each activity.

Example of applied prompt:

Generate a personalized learning itinerary for a 1st-year Bachillerato student who is learning English. The student has difficulties in the conversational part because they have a hearing disability. Design a 5-step plan with activities, resources and recommendations adapted to their level. Include a brief description of each activity.

Expected result:

AI takes into account this student’s difficulty or need and proposes a completely adapted itinerary, including specific support tools. In the previous example, since the student has a hearing disability, AI recommends applications to transcribe videos, convert into images what is said aloud and use subtitles in all conversational activities.

The case of Ana

Ana, a Primary school teacher, used this technique for a student with dyslexia who had to work on reading comprehension. AI generated for her a 5-step plan with graded readings, interactive exercises with immediate feedback and multisensory activities. It also proposed text-to-speech tools and visual vocabulary games. In less than half an hour, Ana had a complete and adapted itinerary that would have taken days to prepare manually.

AI as the teacher’s ally

Although AI has arrived to stay in the educational field, it is essential to make good use of it and take into account the implications that its use entails. It is also important to emphasize that it is not a question of AI replacing the teacher’s work, but of complementing it, helping them to teach better and to better accompany the students.

If you have not yet tried how AI can help you in your teaching, our recommendation is that you start with small steps: create an activity, create a visual resource, or something simple. In addition, if you want to integrate everything you create in a single platform, Additio App is your starting point.

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