Prompts to Improve Weak IEP Goals with AI
Jul 02, 2025If your child's IEP says something like “will improve reading skills,” it’s time for a rewrite. And AI can help.
Vague goals don’t support real progress. They make it difficult to track, hard to measure, and easy for schools to underdeliver. With ChatGPT, you can turn weak goals into SMART ones, and even add benchmarks that matter.
How to Use Prompts Effectively
Try this: paste the goal and say, “Rewrite this IEP goal using SMART criteria with measurable benchmarks for a 5th grader with dyslexia.”
Want to go deeper? Ask ChatGPT to add daily tracking or suggest an objective measurement tool (e.g., curriculum-based assessments or rubrics).
Revise in Layers
Start with the original. Ask for a rewrite. Then prompt: “Give me two alternate versions—one for inclusion and one for pull-out services.” You’ll get options you can shape into advocacy talking points.
📍 Need tested prompts? Attend our FREE AI in Special Education webinar series.