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Assessment

Prompts

• "Generate multiple choice questions with answer key for this standard…"
• "Write tasks for… at DOK level..."
• "Create scenario-based or application-based questions about…"
• "Generate writing prompts based on this standard…"
• "Generate project ideas for…"
• "Create rubric categories for the following standards..."
• "Create a rubric using the following categories and point values..."

EL & IEP Students

Prompts

• Cultural Relevance: "Here is a lesson plan I'm teaching. Give me a list of ways I can make this lesson more culturally relevant to my students from [CULTURE or COUNTRY]."
• "Make this resource more culturally relevant by incorporating plants, animals, common names, food, etc. from [CULTURE or COUNTRY]."
• Literacy Skills: "Create a reader's theater script about a child from [CULTURE or COUNTRY]."
• "Rewrite this text at WIDA level [#]."
• "Rewrite this text at Lexile level [#]."
• Vocab Simplification: "Simplify these vocab definitions for [GRADE] English language learners."

Student Engagement

Prompts

• Incorporating student interests: “I'm teaching [TOPIC] to [GRADE] and they love [INTERESTS]. Make a list of connections that can help them stay engaged and retain knowledge.”
• Anticipatory Sets: "I'm teaching a lesson about [TOPIC] to [GRADE LEVEL]. Generate several ideas for anticipatory sets that will get my students talking.
• Relevance: "My [GRADE] students are learning about [TOPIC]. We live in [LOCATION] and my students come from the following backgrounds or cultures... Give examples of how this topic is relevant to them now and in the future."

Prompts

• Cross-curricular connections: “Give me ideas for an activity where I introduce students to [CONCEPT]. Make a connection between this concept and the [SUBJECT] skill [SPECIFIC SKILL].”
• Inductive Learning: "I want my students to use inductive reasoning to learn about [TOPIC]. Give me a set of various examples students can analyze."
• Choice board: "Create a student-directed choice board with [NUMBER] activities [GRADE LEVEL] [SUBJECT/TOPIC]"
• Gamification: "I'm teaching this lesson (copy & paste or upload). Give me suggestions on how I can gamify this lesson."

Retrieval Practice & Review Games

Retrieval Practice

"We tend to think that most learning occurs during the initial encoding stage–when students get information 'in' by re-reading, reviewing, and taking notes. However, one of the most robust findings from 100+ years of cognitive science research is that a significant amount of learning occurs when students pull information 'out' by using a strategy called retrieval practice."

+ RetrievalPractice.org

Review Games

• Gimkit

• Gimkit question upload template

• Blooket

• Blooket question upload template

• Kahoot

• Kahoot question upload template

AI Prompt Example

Result

"I need multiple choice review questions for the following terms. For each term, write one vocab-based question and one real-life scenario-based question. "The questions need to be formatted in a table with these corresponding columns: Question, Correct Answer, Incorrect Answer 1, Incorrect Answer 2, Incorrect Answer 3. "Here are the terms/concepts..."

Time Management

Prompts

• Visual cues with emojis: “Give me emojis for ..."
• Emails: "I need an email for my students' parents about [DETAILS]. Use a friendly tone and clear, concise language."
• Feedback: "Here is the rubric I'm using to score an assignment (upload rubric- ClaudeAI.) Generate short, friendly feedback comments for each category, written in the second person."
• Spreadsheet Formulas🤓: "I need a spreadsheet formula that will [DESCRIPTION]."

Creativity

• Write two truths & a lie about…
• Create an analogy to explain…

• Write a scene featuring the characters from {SHOW or BOOK] talking about [TOPIC] and by the end of the scene, everyone understands [TOPIC].
• Write a 'scientific discovery' article describing an imaginary organism with unique adaptations to its environment. Include [VOCAB].
• Create a funny newscast script about [TOPIC] featuring the following vocabulary...

• Generate a song about [TOPIC] to the tune of [SONG].
• Create a riddle to help my students remember [CONCEPT].
• Create treasure hunt clues that rhyme for [ITEMS/TOPIC].
• Write a letter from the perspective of [HISTORICAL FIGURE] who experienced [EVENT].
• Make a playlist of songs about [TOPIC].
• Compose a series of tweets or social media posts about [TOPIC].

Use AI to spark creativity in your students!

Use AI to spark creativity in your students!

Prompt Engineering 101

Prompt Engineering

• Getting better responses: Describe what you want the AI to do, then add "Ask me questions to give me a better response" or "What details do you need to better assist me?"

• Quality control: Tell the AI what you want, then specify "Don't include..."
• Example: "Give me a list of activity ideas for teaching digital citizenship, but don't include activities that require QR codes."
• Make the AI fix it: Before changing the output yourself, tell the AI specifically what you want it to change about its result.
• Example: " Rewrite those same questions to be more concise, and swap around some of the correct answers because too many of them use 'C' as the answer."

Additional Resources

Resources

• Easy Edtech Podcast- Monica Burns

• 60+ Must Try ChatGPT prompts

• Using AI As Your Teaching Assistant

• Prompts for Social Studies

• Prompts for ELA

• Prompts for Math

• Facebook groups: AI for Teachers, ChatGPT for Teachers. and more!

• Teacher AI prompt library

• AI for Educators (Linkedin)

• Khan Academy AI guides for teachers