Teaching is two jobs: the part with students, and the hours of planning, grading, and admin that happen after they leave. AI is genuinely useful for the second one — drafting lesson plans, building three reading levels of the same worksheet, writing the parent email you've rephrased four times.
The catch is alignment. A lesson plan is only useful if it fits your standards, your grade, and the 35 minutes you actually have. The prompts below are built to take those constraints up front, so what comes back is something you can use Monday, not a generic template.
Every prompt below works in a free Chatbot App account. No credit card to start.
Try these prompts freeGive it the grade, subject, standard, time, and what students already know. Ask for a plan with a hook, the activity, and a quick check for understanding.
Write a 45-minute lesson plan for 7th-grade science on Newton's third law (NGSS MS-PS2-1). Students know the first two laws. Include a 5-min hook, a hands-on activity using items found in a classroom, and a 3-question exit ticket. Keep prep minimal — no special equipment.
Paste your material and ask for the same content at different reading levels or with scaffolding for students who need it.
Take this reading passage and comprehension questions and give me three versions: one at grade level, one simplified for striving readers (shorter sentences, key terms defined), and one extension with deeper questions for advanced students. Keep the core content the same. [paste material]
Ask for a clear rubric tied to your assignment, then paste student work and have it draft feedback you review and adjust.
Create a 4-level rubric for a 5-paragraph persuasive essay (criteria: thesis, evidence, organization, conventions). Then, using it, draft specific, encouraging feedback for this student sample — point to two strengths and one priority fix. I will review before sending. [paste essay]
Give it the situation and the tone. Ask for something warm, clear, and short — including the tricky ones about behavior or grades.
Write a short email to a parent about a student who is bright but has missed 3 homework assignments this week. Warm, specific, partnership tone (not accusatory), suggests one concrete thing we can try together. Under 120 words.
Don't put student names, grades, or anything identifying into a consumer chatbot — student data is protected (FERPA in the US), and most free tools aren't built for it. Anonymize work before pasting, and check whether your district has an approved tool. And keep grading judgment yours; AI drafts feedback, you decide it.
It can draft feedback and apply a rubric for a first pass, which saves time on the writing. It should not be the final grade — it misses context, can be inconsistent, and grading is a professional judgment. Use it to speed up feedback, then review and adjust.
Yes — it's a planning aid, the same as borrowing a colleague's plan and adapting it. The key is giving it your standards, grade, and constraints so the output fits your classroom, then editing it to match how you teach.
Don't enter names or identifying details into consumer tools. Anonymize student work before pasting, and use a district-approved or privacy-reviewed tool for anything tied to real students. FERPA applies to student records.
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