Taking Generative AI Further To Reduce Workload
This online Prompt Craft guide begins to support our school and trust leaders to use and ‘craft’ prompts to produce outcomes more quickly and efficiently. These prompts are more detailed and sophisticated than those provided in our ‘first steps‘ prompt guides. Here, we want to help you improve the quality of the outcome of using GenAI whilst also introducing you to more detailed, more advanced prompts. The better the prompt, the more likely is is that you will get an outcome that better suits your needs.
You can copy the prompts we have created as a starting point for common-time intensive tasks.
These prompts can then be modified to suit your needs and, we hope, inspire you to create further advanced prompts for other tasks.
With experience, your prompt craft will develop and you’ll begin to write your own prompts – simple or complex, short or long, single or multi-stepped – to fulfil your needs.
We hope the prompts provided here begin to exemplify how generative AI can start to be used in educational settings to reduce workload. Please try out new prompts and share what works with us so we can disseminate these to other leaders, teachers, and support staff users of generative AI.
Please remember not to share any personal data (including your own, colleagues, and that of students) in any format with generative AI tools that do not include Commercial Data Protection. You are bound by your school/trust Data Protection and Internet Security and related policies. Please consult with your Headteacher, DPO or responsible body. Quality assure the output before you use it.
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Act as a teacher. I want you to create a high-quality lesson plan for me. Before you start, please ask me to briefly answer the following 8 questions to tailor the lesson plan to my class’s needs:
- What is the subject you are teaching (e.g. Geography)?
- What year group are you teaching, or what is the age of the students?
- What is the topic your students are learning about (e.g. different types of volcanoes)?
- Is the lesson based on the National Curriculum (England) or an examination board specification (e.g. AQA Geography)?
- How long is the lesson (in minutes)?
- What would you like me to include in the lesson plan (e.g. retrieval practice, hinge questions, videos)?
- What is your intended success criteria for the lesson?
- Is there anything useful I should know about the specific learning needs of your class or their prior learning?
After I’ve answered these questions and you’ve created the lesson plan, please say to me: “I know it is unlikely that this first draft is perfect, so please ask me to make modifications so that it is more relevant to your class’s needs, such as adaptive learning strategies for specific groups of learners. You can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what you want. But, please remember, you need to quality assure my suggestions and make sure what and how you teach meets the needs of your learners. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased.” When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a teacher. Help me create a set of comprehension questions based on a text I will provide. First, I will answer some questions to give you context:
- What subject are you teaching (e.g. Geography)?
- What is the topic the students are learning about (e.g. different types of volcanoes)?
- How old are the children, or what year group are they in?
- How many questions would you like?
After I have answered these questions, I will copy and paste the text. Please guide me on how many words and characters you can handle. Once you have created the questions for my students, provide the answers separately for my use. Remind me to suggest modifications to make the questions more relevant to my class’s needs. We can iterate on this process until we get something closer to what I want. I need to quality assure the suggestions to ensure they meet the needs of my learners. Generative AI can make errors, and outputs may include misinformation or bias. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a teacher. Create a set of spelling words for my pupils to learn based on the National Curriculum (England). To help you create a list of age-appropriate words, please ask me the following questions:
- How old are the pupils, or what year group are they in?
- How many spellings would you like?
- Are there any specific Grapheme-phoneme Correspondence (GPC) you would like to focus on (e.g. a_e as in ‘fade’)?
After you have created the word list, please remind me to suggest modifications so that it is more relevant to my class’s needs. I can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what I want. Additionally, remind me to quality assure the suggestions and ensure that what and how I teach meets the needs of my learners. Generative AI can and does make errors; outputs may include misinformation or bias. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a teacher. I would like you to create a challenging set of activities based on a text I will provide. Please ask me to copy and paste the text, and guide me on the word and character limits you can handle. After reviewing the text and suggesting activities, remind me to suggest modifications to make the activities more relevant to my classes’ needs. I would like to iterate on this process multiple times until we achieve the desired outcome. Additionally, remind me to quality assure the suggestions to ensure they meet the needs of my learners. Please note that generative AI can make errors, and outputs may include misinformation or biases. When you are ready, let’s begin!
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Act as a teacher. Please create a set of exit tickets based on the text I provide. Guide me on how many words and characters you can handle for the text. After creating the flashcards for my students, remind me to suggest modifications to make them more relevant to my classes’ needs. Inform me that I can request modifications multiple times until we achieve the desired outcome. Emphasise the importance of quality assurance to ensure that the suggestions meet the needs of my learners. Note that Generative AI can make errors, and outputs may include misinformation or bias. When you are ready, let’s begin!
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Act as a teacher. Create a set of flashcard based on the text I provide. Ask me to copy and paste the text, guiding me with how many words and characters you can handle. After you have created the flashcards for my students, please remind me to suggest modifications so that it is more relevant to my classes’ needs and that I can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what I want, and that I need to quality assure the suggestions and make sure what and how I teach meets the needs of my learners. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a teacher. I need recommendations for Vimeo and YouTube videos to use in a lesson with children. These videos should be age-appropriate and suitable for showing to children. Please ask me the following three questions before suggesting any videos:
- What is the subject you are teaching (e.g. Geography)?
- What is the topic the students are learning about (e.g. different types of volcano)?
- What is the age of the students?
After I have answered these questions, suggest suitable age-appropriate videos. Additionally, remind me to quality assure the videos by watching them in full, as generative AI can make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased. I am responsible for the content I use in class. When you are ready, let’s go!
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I need you to summarise a passage of text for me. Before I provide the text, please ask me the following four questions:
- How many words would you like the summary to be? (A side of A4 is about 400-500 words)
- To make it easy to read, what reading age do you want the text summary to be? (The UK average and gov.uk maximum recommended standard is 9)
- Who is the audience for this summary? (e.g., students, teachers, parents)
- How many words and characters are you able to work with?
After I have answered these questions, prompt me to copy and paste the passage of text so you can review and summarise it. Once you have generated the summary, please remind me that generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Please analyse the following prompt and provide feedback on how it can be improved. Then, read the passage of text I will provide and determine its reading age. After you have responded, ask me if I would like you to rewrite the text for a different reading age (the UK average reading age is 9). When you are ready, ask me to copy and paste the text and guide me on the word and character limits you can work with. Once you have assessed the reading age, remind me that generative AI can make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and they could be biased. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a school leader and write a newsletter for our school in a friendly formal style, using standard British English spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Before writing the newsletter, ask me the following four questions:
- Who is the audience (e.g. parents and carers of children that attend our school)?
- What news and updates would you like to give?
- What things would you like to celebrate in the newsletter?
- How long would you like the newsletter to be (an A4 page is approximately 400-500 words)?
Use my answers to write the newsletter.
After creating the newsletter, say to me: ‘I know it is unlikely that this first draft is perfect, so please ask me to make modifications so that it is more relevant to your needs. You can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what you want. But, please remember, you need to quality assure my suggestions and make sure it meets your school’s needs. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased’.Description for this block. Use this space for describing your block. Any text will do. Description for this block. You can use this space for describing your block.
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Please analyse my prompt and provide feedback on how I could improve it. Once you are ready, ask me to copy and paste the text I would like you to translate. Please guide me on the number of words and characters you can work with. After reading my text, ask me which language I would like you to translate it to. Once you have translated the text, remind me to quality assure the translation, as Generative AI can make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and they could be biased. When you are ready, let’s go!
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Act as a school leader and help me prepare an assembly for children at my school. To get started, please ask me the following four questions:
- What is the theme of the assembly?
- How long will the assembly be?
- What is the age range of the children attending the assembly?
- What features would you like me to produce for you (e.g. a story to read to children, reflective questions to ask the children)?
Once I have answered these questions, create the assembly content. At the end, suggest a possible structure for a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation based on the theme of the assembly.
After you’ve created the assembly, please say to me: ‘I know it is unlikely that this first draft is perfect, so please ask me to make modifications so that it is more relevant to your needs. You can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what you want. But, please remember, you need to quality assure my suggestions and make sure it meets your school’s needs. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased.’
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Act as a school leader and suggest potential measurable performance management targets, success criteria, and supporting evidence.
To help you write the targets, please ask me the following three questions:
- What is the role of the person you are conducting the performance management of (e.g. main-scale teacher, upper-pay scale teacher)?
- How many targets would you like to set?
- Do you want any of the targets to focus on something specific?
After I have answered the questions, suggest the targets, success criteria, and supporting evidence for each. Afterwards, say to me: ‘I know it is unlikely that this first draft is perfect, so please ask me to make modifications so that it is more relevant to your needs. You can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what you want. But, please remember, you need to quality assure my suggestions and make sure they meet your needs. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased.’
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Act as a marketing manager and write 10 viral social media posts of 280 characters or less.
To help you create the posts, please ask me the following six questions:
- What is the name of the school or organisation the posts are for?
- What message would you like the posts to communicate?
- Who is the target audience of the posts?
- Would you like the posts to include emojis?
- What hashtag(s) would you like to include (optional)?
- Would you like to include a link to a website (optional)?
Once I have answered these questions, create the posts. Afterward, say to me: ‘I know it is unlikely that this first draft is perfect, so please ask me to make modifications so that it is more relevant to your needs. You can do this multiple times until we get something closer to what you want. But, please remember, you need to quality assure my suggestions and make sure they meet your needs. Generative AI can and does make errors, outputs may include misinformation, and/or they could be biased.’
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