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Plan lessons, differentiate materials, build rubrics, give feedback with integrity, generate quizzes, set up tutors that guide instead of answer, design courses and hands-on cohorts, teach AI literacy and write a clear academic-integrity policy.
For School teachers, university lecturers, corporate trainers and L&D designers, and instructors who run hands-on lab cohorts
Prepare better lessons in less time, and keep the thinking with your learners
- A week of lesson outlines drafted from your scheme of work in under an hour
- Every activity available at three levels of support without retyping
- Rubric-based feedback drafts you review and edit before any learner sees them
- A tutor that asks guiding questions instead of handing out answers
- An AI-use policy every learner understands on day one
On this page
- Where AI helps in this job
- Start in 15 minutes
- The tools people in this role use
- Members only: Workflow: a week of lessons from your scheme of work
- Members only: Workflow: differentiated materials at three levels
- Members only: Workflow: rubrics and feedback with integrity
- Members only: Workflow: quizzes that test understanding
- Members only: Tutoring assistants that guide instead of answer
- Members only: Course design for trainers and hands-on cohorts
- Members only: Teaching AI literacy
- Members only: An academic-integrity policy learners can follow
- Members only: A skill for educators
- Members only: Guardrails and hooks
- Members only: Routines that run without you
- Members only: Prompt ladder for educators
- Members only: Measure it
- Members only: Risks and what not to automate
Teaching repeats every week: plan, adapt, assess, give feedback, reteach. AI can give you back hours of preparation. It also makes it easy for learners to skip the thinking that learning needs, and for teachers to hand over judgments that belong to them. This page uses AI for preparation and first drafts, keeps marks and decisions with the teacher, sets up tutors that ask instead of tell, and keeps learner data out of tools that should not have it.
Where AI helps in this job#
| Task | What AI does well | What you still own |
|---|---|---|
| Lesson planning | Outlines from objectives, with timings, activities and checks for understanding | The objectives, the sequence and your class |
| Differentiated materials | Rewrites a text at three levels, adds scaffolds, glossaries and word banks | Knowing which learner needs which version |
| Rubrics | Drafts criteria and level descriptors tied to the objective | Standards and moderation |
| Feedback on work | Drafts feedback against your rubric, quoting the work | Marks, grades and the relationship |
| Quizzes | Writes questions with wrong options built on common misconceptions | Checking every answer key |
| Tutoring | Asks guiding questions, gives one hint at a time, checks understanding | Deciding when to step in |
| Course design | Maps outcomes to activities and assessments, sequences modules | Coherence and assessment validity |
| Admin | Newsletters, reports and messages to parents or sponsors | Anything about a named learner |
| Hands-on labs | Lab instructions, hint ladders and automated acceptance checks | What counts as competence |
AI gets facts wrong with confidence, especially dates, numbers and formulas, and its answer keys contain mistakes. It does not know your curriculum, your standards or your learners unless you tell it, and its claims about reading level are rough. It cannot tell you reliably whether a learner used AI: Liang and colleagues found that GPT detectors "consistently misclassify non-native English writing samples as AI-generated". And not every tool is meant for every age: Claude's consumer apps require users to be at least 18, and UNESCO recommends 13 as the minimum age for independent conversations with generative AI in the classroom.
Start in 15 minutes#
These work in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot (formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot), on the account your school or organisation provides.
Prompt
Plan one lesson from an objective
Plan a [LENGTH]-minute lesson for [AGE GROUP OR COURSE] on [TOPIC]. The learning objective is: [OBJECTIVE]. Include a starter, the main activity, a check for understanding and an exit question, with timings. Mark any fact I should verify with [CHECK]. Do not invent resources, page numbers or links.
A good plan has activities that all serve the objective and timings you could actually keep. Check every [CHECK] item and any fact you are not sure of.
Prompt
Rewrite a text at three levels
Rewrite the text below at three levels for [AGE GROUP]. Keep the same key facts and the same learning objective at every level. - Level 1: short sentences and a glossary of up to 6 key words. - Level 2: close to the original, with key terms in bold. - Level 3: the original plus one question that asks learners to apply the idea to a new situation. Example of a Level 1 sentence: "Plants make their own food. They use sunlight, water and air to do it." Text: [PASTE]
Check that every level teaches the same concept, and read Level 1 aloud: if it sounds babyish for the age group, ask for a version that is simpler in structure but not in tone.
Prompt
Quiz questions built on misconceptions
Write 5 multiple-choice questions on [TOPIC] for [AGE GROUP], each with 4 options. Base every wrong option on a common misconception and name it, like this example: Q: Why is it colder in winter in the UK? A) The Earth is further from the Sun (misconception: distance causes the seasons) B) Sunlight arrives at a lower angle and the days are shorter (correct) C) The Sun gives out less heat in winter (misconception: the Sun's output changes with the seasons) D) Clouds block the Sun all winter (misconception: weather and season are the same thing) After the questions, give the answer key with a one-line explanation for each.
Answer every question yourself before you use it. The best wrong options come from mistakes you have seen in your own class, so swap in yours.
Warning
Use only the AI tools your school or organisation approved, in accounts it manages. Do not paste learners' names, email addresses, ID numbers, grades, special needs, health or safeguarding information into a personal account. Replace names with codes such as S01 and keep the key in your school system. In the US, FERPA gives parents the right to some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from their children's education records.
The tools people in this role use#
- A general assistant on an institution account. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot for planning, materials and feedback drafts.
- Tutoring modes that ask instead of tell. Claude for Education introduced a learning mode in April 2025 that guides "students' reasoning process rather than providing answers", inside Projects, starting with partner universities. Google's Guided Learning in the Gemini app, launched in August 2025, breaks problems down step by step, and educators can share a link to it in Google Classroom. For coding courses, Claude Code's Learning output style leaves small pieces of code for the learner to write.
- Custom tutors and assistants. Claude Projects (every plan, shared on Team and Enterprise), Gemini Gems with uploaded files as knowledge, and Microsoft Copilot agents built in Agent Builder can each hold your materials and your instructions.
- AI literacy material. Claude Academy's free course "AI Fluency: Framework and foundations" teaches the 4D framework: Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence. Anthropic's open-source discernment-nudge skill adds follow-up questions that help users check what the AI told them.
Workflow: a week of lessons from your scheme of work
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What you get on this page:
- 4 step-by-step workflows
- 14 prompts
- 1 skill
- 1 hook
- 2 routines
Also in the members part
- Workflow: differentiated materials at three levels
- Workflow: rubrics and feedback with integrity
- Workflow: quizzes that test understanding
- Tutoring assistants that guide instead of answer
- Course design for trainers and hands-on cohorts
- Teaching AI literacy
- An academic-integrity policy learners can follow
- A skill for educators
- Guardrails and hooks
- Routines that run without you
- Prompt ladder for educators
- Measure it
- Risks and what not to automate
Sources
Checked against these on 13 Oct 2026.
- Anthropic: Introducing Claude for Education (learning mode), April 2025 (opens in a new tab)anthropic.com
- Google: Guided Learning in Gemini, August 2025 (opens in a new tab)blog.google
- Claude Code docs: Output styles (the Learning style) (opens in a new tab)code.claude.com
- UNESCO: Guidance for generative AI in education and research (opens in a new tab)unesco.org
- UNESCO: AI competency framework for teachers (opens in a new tab)unesco.org
- Liang et al.: GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (Patterns, 2023) (opens in a new tab)arxiv.org
- Anthropic Consumer Terms of Service (minimum age) (opens in a new tab)anthropic.com
- US Department of Education: What is FERPA? (opens in a new tab)studentprivacy.ed.gov
- Claude Academy: AI Fluency, framework and foundations (opens in a new tab)academy.claude.com
- Anthropic skills: discernment-nudge (opens in a new tab)github.com
- European Commission: AI Act application timeline (opens in a new tab)digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
- EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the AI Act (Article 5 and Annex III) (opens in a new tab)eur-lex.europa.eu
- Claude Help Center: What are projects? (opens in a new tab)support.claude.com
- Gemini Apps Help: Use Gems (opens in a new tab)support.google.com
- Microsoft Learn: Agent Builder overview (opens in a new tab)learn.microsoft.com
- Claude Help Center: Use skills in Claude (opens in a new tab)support.claude.com
- Claude Help Center: Schedule recurring tasks in Claude Cowork (opens in a new tab)support.claude.com
- Claude Code docs: Hooks reference (opens in a new tab)code.claude.com