12 copy-ready prompts for real teacher work. Customize the brackets, protect sensitive information, verify the output, and keep your professional judgment in the driver's seat.
12 prompts
Lesson Planning
Turn a Standard Into a Teachable Sequence
Break a standard into a lesson arc
Act as an instructional planning partner. I am teaching [GRADE/COURSE] and working on [STANDARD/TARGET]. Create a [TIME] lesson sequence with a student-friendly target, prior-knowledge activation, explicit instruction/modeling, guided practice, application, formative check, and closure. Identify prerequisite knowledge. Do not assume missing requirements; flag anything I should verify.
Customize: Grade/course • standard/target • time
Review and edit the output for your context before using it.
Lesson Planning
Chunk a Complex Lesson
Reduce cognitive overload without lowering rigor
Help me chunk this [GRADE/COURSE] lesson/task: [NON-SENSITIVE TASK]. Preserve the learning goal and rigor. Break it into manageable phases, teacher/student actions, checks for understanding, vocabulary/direction barriers, and two ways to fade support.
Customize: Grade/course • task
Review and edit the output for your context before using it.
Emails
Warm + Clear Family Update
Draft a concise family communication
Draft a warm, professional family email about [TOPIC]. Key non-sensitive facts: [FACTS]. Requested next step: [ACTION]. Keep it concise, avoid jargon/blame, separate facts from interpretation, and invite questions. Do not add student details I did not provide.
Customize: Topic • non-sensitive facts • action
For student-specific communication, use approved workflows and do not paste protected student information into an unapproved AI tool.
Emails
Turn My Notes Into a Staff Email
Convert rough notes into a readable message
Turn these non-sensitive notes into a concise staff email: [NOTES]. Keep supplied facts, remove repetition, organize actions, and include a subject line. Do not invent dates, policies, links, or decisions.
Customize: Notes
For student-specific communication, use approved workflows and do not paste protected student information into an unapproved AI tool.
Engagement
Give Every Student a Way In
Design multiple entry points
For this [GRADE/COURSE] task: [TASK], suggest 5 academically meaningful entry points without reducing the learning goal: quick write, pair/small-group, visual/organizing, movement/sorting if appropriate, and quiet individual. Explain evidence of thinking to look for.
Customize: Grade/course • task
Review and edit the output for your context before using it.
Engagement
Upgrade the Do Now
Create a purposeful opener
Create 5 possible 3-5 minute openers for [GRADE/COURSE] on [TOPIC], aligned to [TARGET]. Each should activate prior knowledge, surface a misconception, create curiosity, or prepare students for learning. Avoid disconnected fun.
Customize: Grade/course • topic • target
Review and edit the output for your context before using it.
Differentiation
Keep the Rigor, Change the Access
Plan access supports without lowering the target
Target: [TARGET]. Task: [TASK]. For [GRADE/COURSE], suggest ways to reduce unnecessary barriers while preserving rigor. Consider directions, vocabulary, chunking, models, response format, scaffolds, and pacing. Separate access supports from changes to the learning expectation.
Customize: Target • task • grade/course
Do not include student names, disability labels, IEP details, or protected information in an unapproved AI tool. Match supports to actual learner data, plans, and educator judgment.
Differentiation
Three Levels of Scaffolding
Plan temporary supports
For [TASK] in [GRADE/COURSE], create light, moderate, and intensive instructional scaffolds while keeping [TARGET] visible. Explain how each could be faded as independence grows.
Customize: Task • grade/course • target
Do not include student names, disability labels, IEP details, or protected information in an unapproved AI tool. Match supports to actual learner data, plans, and educator judgment.
Behavior
Describe What Happened Without Labels
Turn subjective notes into observable language
Rewrite these non-identifying classroom notes using neutral, observable language: [NOTES]. Separate direct observation from interpretation. Preserve relevant sequence, setting, and response. Flag statements needing more information.
Customize: Anonymous notes
Do not enter student names, discipline records, disability information, or protected details into an unapproved AI tool. AI should not determine consequences, diagnoses, threat assessments, or disciplinary decisions.
Behavior
Look for Classroom-Level Patterns
Organize anonymous patterns
Anonymous behavior/engagement patterns: [PATTERNS]. Organize by time, task, setting, antecedent/context, observable behavior, and what followed. Identify questions to investigate. Do not diagnose function, motivation, disability, trauma, or intent.
Customize: Anonymous patterns
Do not enter student names, discipline records, disability information, or protected details into an unapproved AI tool. AI should not determine consequences, diagnoses, threat assessments, or disciplinary decisions.
IEP / MTSS
Turn Data Into Team Questions
Prepare for a data conversation
Using this de-identified summary: [SUMMARY], generate 8 questions a school team could ask before deciding next steps. Separate instruction, access, attendance/opportunity to learn, intervention implementation, environment/context, and additional data needed. Do not diagnose or recommend eligibility/placement.
Customize: De-identified summary
Use only de-identified/non-protected information in unapproved AI tools. AI may organize, draft, or generate questions; it must not determine eligibility, disability, services, goals, placement, intervention assignment, or other required team decisions. Follow applicable law, district procedures, student plans, and professional judgment.
IEP / MTSS
Intervention Fidelity Check
Check whether a plan was implemented as intended
Create a simple fidelity check for this team-defined intervention: [STEPS - NO STUDENT DATA]. Identify essential components, evidence each occurred, frequency/dosage fields, and barriers notes. Do not change the intervention or prescribe services.
Customize: Intervention steps
Use only de-identified/non-protected information in unapproved AI tools. AI may organize, draft, or generate questions; it must not determine eligibility, disability, services, goals, placement, intervention assignment, or other required team decisions. Follow applicable law, district procedures, student plans, and professional judgment.
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