Write IEP Goals Using ChatGPT

In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to help you write IEP goals for your special needs students. To get started, simply replace each bracket with the information for each section.

IEP Goals Prompt

You are an expert special needs teacher. Write a [goal area] IEP goal for my [grade level] student to understand [topic]. Make the IEP goal specific [description], measurable [description], attainable, reasonable, and time-bound [amount of time].

Example IEP Goals Prompt

You are an expert special needs teacher. Write a writing and grammar IEP goal for my 2nd grade student to understand capitalization. Make the IEP goal specific (they should be able to recognize grammatical errors of incorrectly capitalized sentences with proper nouns such as people, pets, and names of places), measurable (student will make capitalization corrections correctly in 8/10 work samples, improving from their current baseline of 0/10 work samples, in ten consecutive trials), attainable, reasonable, and time-bound (within 3-months).

Make the Prompt Work for You

• Have ChatGPT expand on any aspect of the goal that you may need additional help with. In the example above, you could ask ChatGPT for lesson plan ideas to help the student learn grammar. You could also ask the chatbot to create written work sample assessments as criteria for measurement.  

• Ask ChatGPT for creative ideas to integrate goal learning into the rest of the student’s curriculum. In this example you could ask, “What are ways I can utilize multidisciplinary learning to help my student achieve this IEP goal?”

• Use ChatGPT to continue to adjust the goal once it has been achieved, or if you find it is not working. Once you have more information about your student and learning, you can return to the prompt and tweak the timeline or specific objective.

Sign up for our newsletter for more prompts and key tips for using AI in your practice.