Why This Matters Now
Always show a model answer and the rubric; feedback becomes legible and less surprising. For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions.
Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon. Teacher time is precious; automate the repeatable, keep judgment and pastoral care human.
Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports. Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics.
A Practical Framework
AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics. For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions.
Cold p rompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. Always show a model answer and the rubric; feedback becomes legible and less surprising. Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty.
Prompts that Work (Examples)
Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon. Teacher time is precious; automate the repeatable, keep judgment and pastoral care human.
- Socratic: “Ask me one question at a time to test my understanding of photosynthesis. Increase difficulty as I succeed.”
- Rubric-driven feedback: “Score this essay on clarity, evidence, and structure (1–4 each). Return one strength and one next step.”
- UDL option: “Offer three representations of this concept: a 100‑word summary, a labeled diagram description, and a real‑world analogy.”
Start with outcomes, not tools; prompts should map to your learning objectives and Bloom levels. Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports.
Assessment & Academic Integrity
Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon.
Start with outcomes, not tools; prompts should map to your learning objectives and Bloom levels. Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports. AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics.
Rollout in 2 Weeks
Clarity beats cleverness—if a student cannot restate the task, the prompt is too ornate. Use chain-of-thought sparingly and never grade it; grade the final work against transparent criteria. Retrieval practice still wins—space it over days and mix in short, targeted hints from the model.
Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics.
Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Always show a model answer and the rubric; feedback becomes legible and less surprising. For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions.
Pitfalls & Safeguards
Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports. Start with outcomes, not tools; prompts should map to your learning objectives and Bloom levels. Always show a model answer and the rubric ; feedback becomes legible and less surprising.
For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions. Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Teacher time is precious; automate the repeatable, keep judgment and pastoral care human.
Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon. Clarity beats cleverness—if a student cannot restate the task, the prompt is too ornate. Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response.
What to Measure
Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon. Retrieval practice still wins—space it over days and mix in short, targeted hints from the model.
Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Teacher time is precious; automate the repeatable, keep judgment and pastoral care human. Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports.
Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions. Use chain-of-thought sparingly and never grade it; grade the final work against transparent criteria.
Clarity beats cleverness—if a student cannot restate the task, the prompt is too ornate. AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics. Start with outcomes, not tools; prompts should map to your learning objectives and Bloom levels.
Case Notes
Document your playbooks; new colleagues and substitute teachers should onboard in one afternoon. Teacher time is precious; automate the repeatable, keep judgment and pastoral care human.
Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty. Retrieval practice still wins—space it over days and mix in short, targeted hints from the model.
Checklist
Use chain-of-thought sparingly and never grade it; grade the final work against transparent criteria. Cold prompts underperform; prime with prior knowledge and short exemplars before free response. For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions.
Honor privacy: minimize personal data, use district accounts, and rotate identifiers in exports. AI is not a shortcut to learning; it is a mirror that requires better questions and stronger rubrics.
- Define objectives; align prompts to verbs and outcomes.
- Provide exemplars; publish rubrics next to tasks.
- Decide what is allowed; teach citation and logging.
- Pilot with one class; iterate weekly based on evidence.
Conclusion
For accessibility, provide multi‑modal options: text, audio, and captioned video instructions. Guard rails: forbid disallowed sources, cite where appropriate, and log versions for academic honesty.
Retrieval practice still wins—space it over days and mix in short, targeted hints from the model. Always show a model answer and the rubric; feedback becomes legible and less surprising.