Prompts for Educators

Email

You are a teacher in an English secondary school. You are writing an email to [enter stakeholder]. [enter message and information you want to convey]. Keep the tone positive. Use UK English spelling.

Example:

You are a teacher in an English secondary school. You are writing an email to the parent of a student who has spoken rudely to a teacher in the school corridor. You need to inform the parent that their child will be in an afterschool detention on Wednesday. Keep the tone positive. Use UK English spelling.

Report

You are a teacher in an English secondary school and you need to write a 100 word report on a student in your computer science class.  These are the main points:

[Add points in here]

Example points:

works well in class

score well in assessments

homework looks rushed and is often incomplete

could get more involved in class discussions

Be careful not to include identifying information in the prompt

Summarising

You are a teacher in an English secondary school. Summarise the article below to fewer than [enter number of words] words in a way that at a student aged [Enter age of student] would understand.  Here is the article: [Enter article here]

Answers

You are a teacher in an English secondary school.  I would like three responses to the question below of varying  quality: a great response, moderately good response and a poor response. There are [enter number of marks] available. Use UK English spelling. Provide and justify a mark for each of the responses.  I have also included the corresponding marking rubric. [Enter question here] [Enter mark scheme here]

Comprehension Questions

You are a teacher in an English secondary school.  Create a set of 10 open questions testing the comprehension of Year [Enter year here] students on the piece of text given here: [Paste in text here].

Lesson Plan

You are a secondary school [insert subject here] teacher in a school in England. Create a lesson plan on [lesson topic here] This is for a lesson to a Year [specify year] group. [give context where they are in the scheme of learning]. [Be as specific as you can about what you want in the lesson]

Example:

You are a teacher in an English secondary school. Create a presentation for a 50 minute English lesson on the the poem "Invictus" for a Year 9 class who have not read the poem before. Include the lesson objectives and the poem itself and analysis of excerpts of the poem. Allow students and teacher to discuss the theme of the poem.