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For teachers & instructional coaches

Make the next lesson
worth repeating.

Practical AI-assisted planning for classroom teachers and instructional coaches

A small, repeatable practice

  1. 01 Plan one thing
  2. 02 Check the draft
  3. 03 Keep the evidence
  4. 04 Change one thing

AI proposes. You decide.

By the ChatwithGPT editorial project · Prepared with AI assistance · Published · Version 1.1

Start with one upcoming task. Use a workflow to create a small draft, check it yourself, and keep only what fits your teaching. Each workflow includes a copy-ready prompt and a fully synthetic example.

AI use is optional. You can use every checklist and planning sequence on paper or with a colleague. These resources are for adult educators; students do not need an AI account.

These are newly written practice resources, not a validated program. The worked examples demonstrate the process; they are not classroom results.

I’m a teacher

Start with tomorrow’s work.

Choose one lesson, discussion or teacher-written learning pattern. Keep the aim small enough to check yourself.

Find a classroom workflow

I’m an instructional coach

Make the process discussable.

Use a shared planning question and a voluntary, teacher-owned reflection. Keep professional learning separate from evaluation.

Try collaborative planning

One workflow. One careful attempt.

  1. Choose the closest workflow and identify one small output you need today.
  2. Run the supplied synthetic example first, or work through the steps without AI. Replace bracketed prompt fields only with material safe and permitted to share.
  3. Complete the teacher checks before classroom use. If a required check fails, revise or hold the draft.
  4. Keep one short, private repeat log. Compare the effort and usefulness of the process with your usual approach; change one thing next time.

Choose a route through the collection

A sequence you can finish.

Prefer a single artifact? Browse all ten

These three learning paths connect the existing ten artifacts. Each ends with something to keep and a check before moving on. Paths and practice cases are additional teaching aids, not extra artifacts in the thirty-artifact collection.

Path 1 · Guided practice

Build your first trustworthy lesson

Move from one learning goal to a small, checked lesson packet, with an explicit decision about what is ready to use.

Finish with: One teacher-edited lesson plan with a goal, prerequisites, exact tasks, and a feasible sequence; A learner task and exit check with stable labels, plus a separate independently checked teacher key; A short change record identifying the substantive choices you made and any held material.

150 min · proposed study budget

Follow this path

Path 2 · Guided practice

Practice feedback and scoring with privacy

Use invented work to distinguish visible evidence from assumptions, inspect provisional criterion annotations, and design a usable revision.

Finish with: A checked task, a small criterion rubric, and three wholly invented anchors with teacher reference annotations; A disagreement record containing actual quoted evidence, any abstention, and the teacher’s reason for keeping or rejecting a suggestion; One edited feedback comment, a revision opportunity, a checked fresh task, and a privacy stop decision.

110 min · proposed study budget

Follow this path

Path 3 · Guided practice

Rehearse a collaborative teaching improvement

Use one original lesson artifact to compare options, rehearse a teacher-selected change, and agree on a voluntary reflection.

Finish with: A short original discussion sequence with evidence-based questions and alternative response routes; Two revision options with a trade-off, plus one teacher-selected and rehearsed move; An optional teacher-owned three-line note and a voluntary reflection point without surveillance or evaluation.

105 min · proposed study budget

Follow this path

Practice before real work

Synthetic cases, with a worked review.

Use the supplied invented inputs. Compare your reasoning with the worked checks; no account, tool connection or personal information is needed.

Repair a ratio lesson before release

Find an answer-key mismatch, a weak exit check, and an over-helpful scaffold, then release only a coherent packet.

25 min · proposed study budget

Stop the privacy risk before scoring

Reject a superficially anonymous upload, then inspect an unsupported criterion annotation using wholly invented work.

25 min · proposed study budget

Choose your next useful step

10 ways into the work.

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10 complete workflows for teachers and coaches. Filter by task; suggested times are estimates, not measured results.

0120 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Check a lesson before teaching

Turn a draft activity into a teachable sequence with a clear learning goal, a matching check, and verified materials.

Keep: A short lesson sequence, a checked example and exit task, and a list of unresolved issues that would prevent use.

Open the workflow Markdown
0215 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Turn formative evidence into a next step

Use a small evidence pattern to compare teaching options while keeping real records local and decisions with the teacher.

Keep: Two plausible interpretations, a teacher-selected short teaching response, and a fresh check on the same idea.

Open the workflow Markdown
0425 suggested min

Instructional coaches · Teachers

Plan one next move together

Use a focused, non-evaluative 25-minute conversation to improve one small part of an upcoming lesson.

Keep: One teacher-selected change, a brief rehearsal, and an agreed opportunity to reflect on the plan.

Open the workflow Markdown
0520 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Verify sources and answer keys

Check factual claims, references, calculations, and plausible alternative answers before sharing a resource.

Keep: A corrected draft and a short verification record marking each important item checked, revise, or unresolved.

Open the workflow Markdown
0630 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Author a lesson from a teaching goal

Build a first lesson plan from your goal, constraints, and success evidence, then make the teaching choices yourself.

Keep: A teacher-authored lesson plan with a timed sequence, model, practice tasks, answer key, exit check, and explicit hold points.

Open the workflow Markdown
0730 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Calibrate LLM-assisted scoring with synthetic work

Rehearse large language model (LLM)-assisted scoring on invented responses; inspect disagreements and preserve teacher judgment.

Keep: A checked rubric, synthetic anchor set, provisional scoring comparison, and a decision to revise or stop. This is not an automated grading system.

Open the workflow Markdown
0825 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Adapt a task without changing its learning goal

Prepare clearer directions, vocabulary support, and a translation-review draft while checking that the same reasoning remains necessary.

Keep: An original-to-adapted comparison, a small glossary, an optional translation-review draft, and an explicit release or hold decision for each version.

Open the workflow Markdown
0930 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Build a coherent lesson-material packet

Use one bounded knowledge pack to author a lesson brief, learner handout, teacher key, and exit check that agree with one another.

Keep: Four linked draft artifacts, a cross-artifact consistency check, and a teacher-approved packet version. The knowledge pack is a bounded reference, not model training.

Open the workflow Markdown
1020 suggested min

Teachers · Instructional coaches

Write feedback that leads to a revision

Use a fully invented response to practice drafting a specific next step, a revision opportunity, and a check the teacher can actually use.

Keep: A brief teacher-edited feedback comment, a bounded revision task, a worked synthetic revision, and a plan to inspect the new evidence locally.

Open the workflow Markdown

Keep a small record

The next attempt needs
a useful starting point.

Keep this optional log privately, on paper or in an approved teacher-owned file. Record process details only. Do not add names, student work, response-level data, coaching transcripts, recordings, or personnel judgments. A few lines are enough; no submission or score is required.

Open the check-and-repeat log

A printable, downloadable template you keep yourself. No account, submission or browser storage.

Keep the responsibility human.

  • Use school-approved tools and follow local policy. Keep student work, names, identifiers, photographs, voices, disability information, behavior records, and staff or personnel records out of prompts. Removing a name does not necessarily make a record anonymous.
  • Use the supplied synthetic inputs when trying a prompt. If you consider a real aggregate later, have an authorized person check that it cannot identify anyone and that the intended tool and use are permitted. Small groups and unusual details can identify people. When unsure, keep the evidence offline and use a fictional pattern.
  • Teachers decide what to teach and how to respond. Do not use these workflows for automated grading, placement, discipline, eligibility, teacher evaluation, or other consequential decisions.
  • Do not record lessons or coaching conversations for these workflows. Keep planning notes brief, teacher-owned, and separate from personnel evaluation. Do not score teachers or monitor individual participation.
  • Treat every AI answer, answer key, citation, and standards claim as an unchecked draft. Verify facts and calculations using sources you can inspect. Standards alignment requires the exact official standard and a teacher review; it is not claimed here.
  • Use only materials you have permission to share with the tool. A public web page is not permission to upload or reproduce its entire contents.

Read the editorial and evidence policy · Rachel’s publicly sourced background