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108 entries · 98 prompts, 5 personas, 3 workflows, 2 rules

Teaching

For educators: lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, differentiated material and feedback on student work.

  • Adapt a lesson for a deaf pupil
    PromptTeaching

    Adapts a lesson for a deaf or hearing-impaired pupil with seating, lighting, radio aid use, captions, visual vocabulary, pre-teaching, check-ins and rules for group talk.

  • Adapt a text to several reading levels
    PromptTeaching

    Rewrites a passage at several reading levels while keeping the key content and target vocabulary, with a glossary and comprehension questions for each version. For teachers with mixed-ability classes.

  • Align a lesson or unit to standards
    PromptTeaching

    Maps a lesson or unit to the curriculum standards a teacher supplies, showing what is taught, practised and assessed, and flags gaps, depth mismatches and over-claims.

  • Analyse a class's assessment results
    PromptTeaching

    Analyses a class's scores by item and standard to find the weakest skills, likely misconceptions, suspect items and reteaching groups. Use after marking a test or quiz.

  • Assess-plan-do-review track
    WorkflowTeaching

    Runs one SEN support cycle for a pupil - assess needs from evidence, plan outcomes and provision, brief staff to do it, then review progress with the family - pausing for approval at each stage.

  • Assessment design track
    WorkflowTeaching

    Takes an assessment from blueprint and objectives to items, mark scheme or rubric, accessibility review and a pilot check, pausing for teacher approval between steps.

  • Audit a school library collection
    PromptTeaching

    Audits a school library collection for age fit, diversity, currency and curriculum fit, then plans weeding, the gaps to fill and a purchase priority list within budget.

  • Break down a life skill task
    PromptTeaching

    Breaks a life skill such as making a drink or paying in a shop into a task analysis with prompt levels, a chaining plan and a data sheet, for learners with learning disabilities.

  • Build a feedback comment bank
    PromptTeaching

    Builds a reusable bank of specific feedback comments keyed to rubric criteria and levels, each with a next step, plus whole-class feedback, to speed up marking a class set.

  • Teaching assistant mentor
    PersonaTeaching

    Acts as an experienced teaching assistant mentor who helps TAs scaffold instead of doing the work, question well, build independence, stay calm with behaviour and work with teachers.

  • Design a classroom anchor chart
    PromptTeaching

    Designs the content and layout of a classroom anchor chart for a skill or procedure, with student-friendly wording, examples, a visual plan and how to build it with the class.

  • Create a choice board
    PromptTeaching

    Builds a choice board of tasks for one objective that vary in modality and challenge, with clear success criteria for each task and a simple tracking sheet.

  • Create a graphic organizer
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a graphic organizer matched to a thinking task (compare, cause and effect, argument, sequence), with a modelled example, a blank printable version and sentence frames.

  • Create a knowledge organiser
    PromptTeaching

    Creates a one-page knowledge organiser for a unit with key vocabulary, core facts, a timeline or diagram plan and self-quiz instructions, limited to what pupils must remember.

  • Create language supports for multilingual learners
    PromptTeaching

    Creates sentence frames, word banks, visuals and task adjustments for multilingual learners at different English proficiency levels for one specific classroom task.

  • Create a practice worksheet
    PromptTeaching

    Creates a printable practice worksheet for one skill with a worked example, graduated difficulty, mixed formats, an extension task and a checked answer key.

  • Create a classroom review game
    PromptTeaching

    Creates a low-prep classroom review game (quiz show, relay, escape challenge or card game) from unit content, with tiered questions, an answer key, rules, timing and materials.

  • Create an analytic rubric
    PromptTeaching

    Builds an analytic rubric with distinct criteria, performance levels and observable descriptors aligned to learning objectives, plus scoring notes. Use when setting or marking an assignment.

  • Create a weekly spelling pattern list
    PromptTeaching

    Builds a weekly spelling list around one pattern with the rule explained, challenge words, a word sort, practice activities and a short dictation test.

  • Create a visual timetable
    PromptTeaching

    Creates the content for a visual timetable, now-and-next board or task strip with steps, short labels, symbol suggestions, a plan for changes and how to teach the pupil to use it.

  • Redesign an assignment for the AI era
    PromptTeaching

    Redesigns an assignment so learning stays visible when students have AI tools, with process checkpoints, local or personal data, an oral defence and a clear class AI-use policy.

  • Design an active-learning activity
    PromptTeaching

    Designs an active-learning activity such as a jigsaw or gallery walk, with timing, grouping, materials, a teacher script and accountability. Use when lecture alone will not reach an objective.

  • Design a classroom management plan
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a classroom management plan with expectations, routines, positive reinforcement, a consistent response ladder and family communication for the grade. For new teachers and class resets.

  • Design formative checks for a lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Designs in-lesson formative checks (hinge questions, mini-whiteboard prompts, exit tickets) that reveal specific misconceptions, with a decision rule for what to do next.

  • Design a homework task set
    PromptTeaching

    Designs several weeks of short homework for a class built on retrieval and preparation for the next lesson, with time estimates, access for every pupil and quick checking routines.

  • Design a project-based learning unit
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a project-based learning unit around a driving question, with weekly milestones, scaffolds, team roles, a public product and assessment checkpoints tied to standards.

  • Design a school science lab activity
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a school science practical with an investigable question, variables, hypothesis prompt, specific safety notes, materials, numbered procedure, data table and analysis questions.

  • Design self- and peer-assessment
    PromptTeaching

    Designs self-assessment and peer feedback protocols tied to success criteria, with sentence starters, a feedback form and steps that make students act on the feedback.

  • Design a station rotation lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a station rotation lesson with a task card for each station, timing, grouping, materials, transition routines and a teacher-led station that differs by group.

  • Design a student feedback survey
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a short student feedback survey for a teacher or course, with unbiased questions, a plan for reading the results and a script for responding to the class. Use mid-term or at course end.

  • Plan a one-to-one tutoring session
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a one-to-one tutoring session with a quick diagnostic, a teaching segment, guided and independent practice, homework and a session note. For private tutors in any subject.

  • Design a unit plan
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a multi-week unit by backward design, with an essential question, outcomes, a summative performance task, sequenced lessons and formative checks. For teachers planning a topic, not one lesson.

  • Diagnose student misconceptions
    PromptTeaching

    Diagnoses the misconceptions behind a set of wrong student answers, groups them by cause, and plans a short reteach with a hinge question to check each one.

  • Differentiate a lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Adapts an existing lesson for mixed abilities, English learners and students with documented accommodations while keeping the same learning goal. Use when one lesson must reach a varied class.

  • Draft a school improvement plan
    PromptTeaching

    Drafts a school or department improvement plan from supplied data, with a few priorities, root causes, actions, owners, milestones, resources and how impact will be evaluated.

  • Early-years educator
    PersonaTeaching

    Acts as an experienced early-years educator who plans through play, observes before intervening, speaks to young children warmly and simply, and centres routines, safety and families.

  • Feedback wording rules

    Standing rules for wording feedback on student work - tie each comment to a criterion, quote the work, give one actionable next step, and avoid comparisons, personality labels and vague praise.

  • Generate discussion questions
    PromptTeaching

    Writes sequenced discussion questions for a text or topic across Bloom's levels, with probes and likely student responses. Use when preparing a seminar or class discussion.

  • Instructional coach
    PersonaTeaching

    Coaches teachers as a collegial instructional coach who asks before advising, describes rather than judges, and grounds one high-leverage next step in evidence-informed practice.

  • Lesson materials track
    WorkflowTeaching

    Takes one lesson from plan to slide outline, worksheet, quiz and differentiated versions, pausing for teacher approval after each step. Use to prepare a complete, consistent lesson pack.

  • Mark student writing against a rubric
    PromptTeaching

    Marks a batch of student writing against the teacher's rubric with criterion scores, quoted evidence and one next step each, and flags borderline scripts for teacher review.

  • Modify a test for access needs
    PromptTeaching

    Modifies a classroom test or quiz for pupils with access needs by cutting reading load and clutter without lowering the demand, then logs every change and why.

  • Plan an academic misconduct conversation
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a fair conversation with a student suspected of plagiarism or undisclosed AI use, with an evidence review, open questions, a meeting script and the process to follow afterwards.

  • Plan a co-taught lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a co-taught lesson by choosing a co-teaching model, splitting both teachers' roles minute by minute and planning support for students with additional needs.

  • Plan a concrete-pictorial-abstract maths lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a maths lesson that moves through concrete, pictorial and abstract representations, with manipulatives, models, stem sentences and a check at each stage.

  • Plan a play-based early-years activity
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a play-based activity for children aged two to five with learning areas, setup, adult prompts and questions, adaptations, safety notes and what to observe and record.

  • Plan a school field trip
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a school field trip with learning goals, pre and post activities, a timed itinerary, supervision plan, risk assessment and a parent permission letter to adapt to school policy.

  • Plan the first week of school
    PromptTeaching

    Plans the first week of a school year day by day, with relationship-building, routines to teach and practise, co-created expectations, low-stakes diagnostics and a family welcome message.

  • Plan a flipped lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Designs a flipped lesson with a short pre-class video or reading plus check questions, and an in-class application activity that builds on what students learned at home.

  • Plan enrichment for an advanced learner
    PromptTeaching

    Plans enrichment and acceleration for an advanced learner in one subject, with pre-assessment and compacting, depth and complexity tasks, an independent project and how progress is shown.

  • Plan a guided reading group session
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a small-group guided reading session at a set text or level with before, during and after reading steps, teacher prompts, word work and a quick check.

  • Plan an information literacy session
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a library or classroom session on searching, judging sources and citing, built around students' real research task, with live search activities and a short assessment.

  • Plan a six-week intervention group
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a six-week small-group intervention for students below benchmark with entry data, session plans, progress monitoring, decision rules and exit criteria.

  • Plan a library reading programme
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a public library summer reading challenge or children's reading club, with a theme, non-competitive rewards, inclusive book choices, events and outreach to families who do not visit.

  • Plan a live writing model
    PromptTeaching

    Plans live modelling of a writing task with a think-aloud script, the decisions to narrate, a shared "we do" section and scaffolded independent writing, for any subject.

  • Plan a media literacy lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a lesson on evaluating online sources, AI-generated content, digital footprints or advertising, with realistic invented examples and a practical checklist students keep.

  • Plan a mixed-age class lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans one lesson for a mixed-age or multi-grade class with a shared opener, year-group tasks that run without the teacher, a teacher-time rotation and a shared plenary.

  • Plan a number talk
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a short number talk with a purposeful problem string, anticipated student strategies, how to record each one and questions that move mathematical thinking forward.

  • Plan a nursery settling-in schedule
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a key person's settling-in schedule for a new child at nursery or childcare, with gradual sessions, parent involvement, comfort items, and signs the child is ready for longer.

  • Plan a one-to-one support session
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a teaching assistant's one-to-one or small-group session for a pupil with additional needs, with one short target, activities, a prompting ladder, rewards and what to record.

  • Plan an oracy lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a lesson that teaches talk explicitly, with a talk task, roles, sentence stems, ground rules, a listening task and feedback on the physical, linguistic, cognitive and social strands.

  • Plan an outdoor learning lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a curriculum lesson taught outdoors, with site setup, timed activities, behaviour and safety routines, a risk checklist, wet-weather plans and how learning is captured.

  • Plan a parent workshop
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a school workshop for parents and carers, such as how phonics or maths is taught or exam-season support, with a run of show, hands-on activities, handouts and follow-up.

  • Plan a PE lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a physical education lesson with a skill focus, warm-up, progressive activities, adaptations for every ability and disability, safety checks and quick assessment.

  • Plan a systematic phonics lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a synthetic phonics lesson for one grapheme-phoneme correspondence with review, teach, practise and apply phases and fully decodable words and sentences.

  • Plan a restorative conversation
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a restorative conversation after a behaviour incident, with a suitability check, preparation meetings, restorative questions, ground rules, an agreement and follow-up.

  • Plan a social-emotional learning lesson
    PromptTeaching

    Plans an age-appropriate social-emotional learning lesson on a skill such as managing frustration, friendship or empathy, with a hook, activity, discussion and check-in routine.

  • Plan a sensory-friendly classroom
    PromptTeaching

    Plans changes that make a classroom or learning space easier for pupils with sensory sensitivities, covering light, noise, seating, movement breaks and visual routines on a school budget.

  • Plan a Socratic seminar
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a Socratic seminar on a text with student preparation, opening, core and closing questions, roles, discussion norms and a fair way to assess participation.

  • Plan individual behaviour support for a student
    PromptTeaching

    Drafts an individual behaviour support plan from ABC observations, with a hypothesised function, prevention, a replacement skill, responses and data to collect, for review with specialists.

  • Plan a lesson for a substitute teacher
    PromptTeaching

    Writes substitute-teacher plans a stranger can run, with schedule, routines, a self-contained lesson and materials, behaviour notes and an end-of-day report form. For teachers planning an absence.

  • Plan teaching assistant deployment
    PromptTeaching

    Plans how a teacher deploys a teaching assistant across a week, with a role for each lesson, which pupils, scaffolding not doing, interventions, briefing time and feedback loops.

  • Plan a transition to secondary school
    PromptTeaching

    Plans the move from primary to secondary school for a class or a vulnerable pupil, with information sharing, visits, a transition booklet, first-week adjustments and check-ins.

  • Plan trauma-informed classroom routines
    PromptTeaching

    Plans predictable, safe-feeling classroom routines for pupils affected by trauma, with transitions, a regulation space, language to use, repair, and when to involve the safeguarding lead.

  • Plan a university lecture
    PromptTeaching

    Plans an interactive university lecture with timed segments, interaction points, worked examples, a slide outline and a retrieval check, sized to the slot. Use when preparing a lecture.

  • Plan vocabulary instruction for a unit
    PromptTeaching

    Plans explicit vocabulary instruction for a unit, selecting tier 2 and tier 3 words with student-friendly definitions, examples, practice routines across days and a quick check.

  • Prepare for parent-teacher conferences
    PromptTeaching

    Prepares a teacher for parent-teacher conferences with a timed brief per student covering strengths with evidence, one concern, a shared goal and questions to ask the family.

  • Prepare for a subject deep dive
    PromptTeaching

    Prepares a school subject lead for an inspection-style deep dive with curriculum intent in plain words, sequencing, assessment, adaptations, likely questions and evidence to have ready.

  • Pupil data privacy rules

    Standing rules for an assistant used by school staff with pupil information - initials or codes, minimal special-category data, no names in outputs, and flags for what belongs in school systems.

  • Respond to a grade appeal
    PromptTeaching

    Drafts a teacher's or lecturer's reply to a grade appeal or complaint that explains the marking with evidence, acknowledges valid points and states the next steps in the process.

  • Plan a PLC data meeting
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a professional learning community data meeting with a protocol, the data to bring, analysis questions, a decision on one instructional change and follow-up commitments.

  • Special education advisor
    PersonaTeaching

    Acts as an experienced special education advisor who helps teachers adapt instruction and plans for learners with additional needs, strengths-first and without diagnosing.

  • Plan a lesson that teaches a study skill
    PromptTeaching

    Plans a lesson that explicitly teaches one study skill such as retrieval practice, note-making, planning, revision or active reading, with modelling, guided practice and reflection.

  • Further education lecturer
    PersonaTeaching

    Acts as an experienced further education lecturer for 16-19 and adult vocational and resit learners who links theory to the workplace, embeds English and maths and respects mixed motivation.

  • Welcome a newly arrived student
    PromptTeaching

    Plans the first six weeks for a newly arrived student with little of the school language, covering buddies, survival vocabulary, prior learning, family contact and inclusion in lessons.

  • Write annotated exemplars
    PromptTeaching

    Writes original exemplar answers at several levels for one task, annotated against the success criteria, with a comparison table and an improve-it task for pupils.

  • Write a behaviour incident record
    PromptTeaching

    Turns a teacher's rough notes into a factual behaviour incident record with time, place, people, what was seen and heard, actions and follow-up, separating fact from opinion.

  • Write a classroom AI use policy
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a course or classroom AI use policy with allowed and not allowed uses by task type, how to disclose AI help, examples and consequences, in student-friendly language.

  • Write class handover notes
    PromptTeaching

    Writes end-of-year class handover notes for the next teacher with a class overview, pupils needing support, what worked, attainment gaps, family context to share and what to leave out.

  • Write a classroom newsletter
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a weekly or monthly class newsletter for families with what students learned and a question to ask at home, a five-minute home activity, dates to act on and a short message version.

  • Write a decodable text
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a short decodable story that uses only the phonics patterns and tricky words already taught, with a word-by-word decodability check and comprehension questions.

  • Draft measurable IEP goals
    PromptTeaching

    Drafts measurable IEP or support-plan goals from a student's present levels, with baseline, condition, criterion, progress monitoring and accommodations for the team to discuss.

  • Write IEP goal progress notes
    PromptTeaching

    Writes IEP or support-plan goal progress notes from supplied data in objective, parent-readable language with the trend, status, next steps and any needed team discussion.

  • Write an individual learning plan
    PromptTeaching

    Writes an individual learning plan for an adult or further-education learner from initial assessment notes, with a goal, SMART targets in the learner's words, support and review dates.

  • Write an early-years learning story
    PromptTeaching

    Writes an early-years learning story from observation notes in a warm narrative voice, linking what the child did to learning dispositions and outcomes and suggesting next steps.

  • Write lesson observation feedback
    PromptTeaching

    Turns lesson observation notes into specific, growth-focused feedback with evidence-based strengths, one priority, an action step and a follow-up check, for coaches and school leaders.

  • Write a lesson plan
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a lesson plan with measurable objectives, timed activities, checks for understanding, differentiation, materials and an exit ticket. Use when planning a single lesson.

  • Write multiple-choice questions
    PromptTeaching

    Writes multiple-choice questions that test understanding, with distractors drawn from real misconceptions, item-writing checks and a rationale for every option. For teachers building quizzes.

  • Write a one-page pupil profile
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a one-page pupil profile or pupil passport from notes, in the pupil's voice where possible, covering what people like about them, what matters to them and how best to support them.

  • Write an email to parents
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a teacher's email to parents about a concern, praise, incident, request or update that is factual, warm and specific, with a clear next step and due privacy. For teachers and school staff.

  • Write a reading comprehension set
    PromptTeaching

    Writes an original passage at a target reading level with text-dependent literal, inferential and vocabulary questions, an answer key and the skill each question tests.

  • Write a reading volunteer guide
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a guide for volunteers who read with children in a school or library, covering safeguarding basics, how to listen to a child read, praise, questions and reporting concerns.

  • Write report card comments
    PromptTeaching

    Writes specific, balanced report-card comments from a teacher's notes, with a strength, a next step and a consistent tone and length across a class. Use at reporting time.

  • Write retrieval practice starters
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a set of low-stakes lesson starters that mix last lesson, last week and last term content, with answers and a quick tracker to spot the gaps across the class.

  • Write a social story
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a social story for an autistic pupil about one specific situation, using descriptive, perspective and coaching sentences in a safe ratio, literal and positive wording, and a page plan.

  • Write a student recommendation letter
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a recommendation letter for a student from the teacher's own observations, tied to what the programme values, with honest comparative statements. For teachers and professors.

  • Write a teaching assistant briefing
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a short one-lesson briefing for a teaching assistant with the objectives, which pupils to support and how, what to look for and what to report back, using initials only.

  • Write a teaching case study
    PromptTeaching

    Writes a teaching case study for business, health, law or policy courses with a narrative, data exhibits, discussion questions and an instructor's teaching note. Use for case-method classes.

Not: designing a whole course (course-design).