Reviewed, classroom-ready AI prompt templates

Class newsletter to families (no student names)

A short recurring update on what the class is learning — collective, never individual.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Star of the month' style individual mentions creep in — collective-only is the rule

Duty roster structure (roles, not names)

A fair rotation structure you fill with names offline.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Structures only; colleagues' names are added offline in school systems. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Asks for staff names — the structure-only rule prevents it

Field-trip planning pack (consent template + logistics)

The consent-note template and logistics checklist for an outing.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. School consent rules override the template — align with office requirements first.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Cost or timing invented if slots left vague — fill every slot before generating

Meeting summary from your own notes (names removed)

Structure your typed, de-named notes into decisions / actions / owners-by-role.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. The 'nothing added' rule matters most here — summaries must not invent agreements.

Privacy: Remove all names before pasting; use roles ('sports in-charge'). Confidential meetings are not summarised in external tools at all. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Invents an action nobody agreed — compare every line against your notes

One-page staff summary of a circular

Reduce a non-confidential circular to obligations, deadlines and who-does-what.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. Verify every deadline against the original — paraphrased dates are how deadlines get missed.

Privacy: Public/non-confidential circulars only. Confidential documents never enter external tools. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Paraphrases deadlines — the verbatim rule exists for this

Personal professional-development term plan

Turn two or three growth goals into a term plan with checkpoints.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Actions that assume free time you don't have — the fits-inside-work rule

PTM invitation (bilingual, guardians-inclusive)

The parent-teacher meeting invitation with slot times and gentle framing.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. Back-translate the second language to verify rule parity (Module 7 habit).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Summons tone in translation — the partnership framing must survive both languages

Report comment structures by performance band (no students)

Sentence frames per band you personalise offline — identities never enter the tool.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. Personalisation happens in your own document, never in the tool.

Privacy: Patterns only — no names, no identifiable performance data. Personalise offline. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Structures too generic to personalise — the three-sentence shape keeps them useful

Resource inventory formatter

Turn a rough list into a reorder-ready inventory table.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Invents quantities for vague entries — vague entries should surface as notes

Substitute-teacher handover sheet (no student data)

Everything a substitute needs to run your class — routines, not records.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Behaviour histories and named seating charts never enter external tools. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Tempted to add 'watch out for…' student notes — those stay verbal/in school systems

Transform an unsafe admin prompt (three-grade check)

Audit your own intended prompt before sending — including the no-AI verdict.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version. The strictness instruction matters — a lenient audit defeats the purpose.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Suggests cosmetic anonymisation for red substance — the three-grade framing prevents it

Weekly admin batching plan

Design your own 30-minute weekly green-task batch with saved templates.

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Review: Pre-send review: every date/day/time/amount checked against the source; no unauthorised commitments; no personal data; the sent version is the reviewed version.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Marking or student-data tasks sorted green — the sorter must stay strict

Assertion–reason items (board format)

Fact-cause connection items in the standard four-option board pattern.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Reasons' that are true but unrelated — check the causal link is real

Case-based question set with stimulus

A short stimulus (data/situation) with 2–3 questions sampling different levels.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Questions answerable without the stimulus — the 'everything needed' rule cuts both ways

Clear exam instruction block

Unambiguous, student-tested instructions for any paper (bilingual optional).

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Review: Rule-identical is the bar for bilingual instructions; check the back-translation line by line.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Any three' becoming 'the three' in Hindi — the back-translation exposes it

Error-identification items (find and fix)

Students find, name and correct planted errors — assessment as analysis.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Multiple accidental errors per item — verify each has exactly one

Marking moderation pack for a subjective question

Anchor answers at each level so two markers award the same marks.

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Review: Verify the anchors' mark breakdowns against your marking points; adjust to your board's conventions.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Anchors too polished — 'real student writing' is the instruction that matters

Oral presentation rubric (content/delivery split)

Separate content and delivery criteria so neither hides the other.

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Review: Behaviour-only descriptors protect shy students with strong content — verify none reference personality.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Confident delivery' style descriptors sneaking in — behaviour only

Parallel forms of an existing question

Same skill, same difficulty, new surface — for retests and practice banks.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Difficulty drift in variants — the invariants line lets you check the claim

Peer-assessment protocol (two stars and a wish)

Structured peer feedback anchored to criteria, kept about the work.

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Review: The lazy example teaches more than the strong one — keep both.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Starters drift to person-comments — the work-only rule is explicit

Post-remediation recheck (new surface + transfer)

A recheck that distinguishes a rebuilt model from memorised practice.

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Review: Pre-commit your three decisions (mastered/partial/unmoved) before administering — evidence should meet a plan.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Reused practice contexts — the new-surface rule is what makes this evidence

Practical activity checklist (binary steps)

Procedure marking as observable yes/no steps; rubrics stay for quality.

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Review: Verify step order against the prescribed manual; checklists mark procedure, never understanding.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Steps that aren't observable ('understands the aim') — binary visible actions only

Short-answer items with marking keys

Short-answer questions with point-wise expected answers for consistent marking.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Marking points that overlap — each point must be independently creditable

Single misconception-revealing item

One diagnostic item whose wrong options each map to a named wrong model.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Options that fit multiple models — each must map to exactly one

Six-defect audit of an existing test

Audit any test (AI- or human-made) for the six defect classes before students sit it.

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Review: The AI's audit is a second pair of eyes, not the verdict — you confirm each finding; you solve the items too.

Privacy: Paste only the test content — never student responses or marks. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Misses key errors — this audit supplements, never replaces, solving items yourself

Student self-assessment (I-can + evidence)

Outcome-wise 'I can' statements with an evidence line, in student language.

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Review: The evidence line is the point — check it survives; without it self-assessment is mood-reporting.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Statements in teacher language — the read-alone test catches this

Ungraded diagnostic before a new unit

Surface prior knowledge and misconceptions before teaching, without marks.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Reads like a test — the friendly framing must survive into the items themselves

Concept-essential story for reading aloud

A story where the concept drives the plot — with discussion bridge questions.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Apply the test: does the story fail without the concept?

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Concept as decoration — the story-fails-without-it test · Moralising last line sneaks in

Creative writing task with productive constraints

Constraints that spark originality instead of limiting it.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. The no-model-answer rule protects originality — resist adding one.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: A 'sample' creeps in — the local-anchor + no-model rules are the safeguards

Cross-age teaching project (older students make for younger)

Older students design learning materials for a younger class — authentic audience.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Frame too prescriptive about the product — format choice is the students' design decision

Debate kit with asymmetric briefing packs

A contestable motion with different evidence per side — argument becomes necessary.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify both packs' evidence against the textbook; check the packs genuinely differ.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Symmetric packs — the flop rebuilt; check evidence differs · Motions touching student identity — forbidden

Design challenge with trade-off constraints

Constraints that force choices; testable success criteria; reflection on trade-offs.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Criteria that need teacher opinion — 'testable' means measurable

Gallery/museum walk with artefact cards

Stations of source/artefact cards with observation prompts — analysis on foot.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify any textbook-based source against the book; label fictional sources as fictional.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Invented 'historical sources' presented as real — fictional must be labelled

Investigable vs non-investigable question sort

Teach students what makes a question testable — with a sorting deck.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Categories printed on the cards — the sort must be the students' thinking

One-pager synthesis task (visual + verbal)

End-of-unit synthesis on a single page mixing sketch, quote and connection.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Artistic quality' sneaks into criteria — completeness and own-words only

Project frame (driving question to exhibition)

The full PBL frame: question, milestones, roles, criteria, exhibition.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Driving question too broad to own — it should fit in one sentence a student would say

Simulation with private role sheets and scenario clock

A decision-rich role-play with timed injects and a debrief that lands the learning.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Roles with no real decisions — private sheets must create genuine tension · Debrief dropped for time — it IS the lesson

Structured brainstorm protocol (quantity before judgement)

A class ideation session with rules that protect wild ideas.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Protocol collapses into open discussion — the phases and script keep structure

Teach-back activity design (students as explainers)

Students prepare and deliver a micro-lesson to peers — deepest practice there is.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Planning card so detailed it writes the explanation — cards prompt, never script

What-if scenario set for discussion

Counterfactuals that stretch understanding beyond the textbook case.

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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: What-ifs needing untaught content — 'answerable from the taught concept' is the boundary

Assessment presentation accommodations (same construct)

Reformat a test's presentation for access while measuring the same thing.

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Review: The construct is sacred: presentation changes, measurement does not. Verify item-by-item.

Privacy: Paste only the test content. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Simplifying a word problem changes the skill measured — check the confirmation lines

Bias audit of a support version

Run the five failure patterns on an adaptation before it reaches students.

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Review: The dignity test is final: if the adaptation would embarrass the student it serves, it has failed.

Privacy: Paste only the material — never information about the students it is for. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The audit softens findings — ask for one finding per pattern minimum

Choice board for one outcome

A 3×3 grid of task choices at mixed depths, all serving the same outcome.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Some cells drift off-outcome — every task must evidence the same goal

Concrete-pictorial-abstract ladder for a maths concept

The same concept staged through objects, drawings, then notation.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Jumps to notation early — the bridge sentences are the point

Context-diversification pass on existing material

Rewrite word problems/examples so contexts include all your students.

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Review: Check the change-flags: the demand must be untouched; your students' own context should appear first.

Privacy: Paste only your own teaching material. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Changes the numbers along with the names — 'demand identical' is the rule

Dyslexia-friendly reading passage

A reading passage restructured for decoding ease at the same content level.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page. Offer to the whole class — decoding-friendly structure helps everyone.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Simplifies the geography along with the sentences — watch the substance

Early-finisher extension menu

Depth-adding extensions anyone may attempt — not just 'toppers'.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Extensions introduce next chapter's content — 'no new topics' is the boundary

Language-supported version for EAL/ESL learners

Same task with pre-taught vocabulary, simplified syntax and glosses — same concept level.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page. Verify glosses against the textbook's own terminology.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Content demand drops with the language — state 'same conceptual level' explicitly

Low-stakes participation structures for reluctant students

Participation formats that let hesitant students contribute safely.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Structures that still spotlight individuals — the no-forced-answer rule is the test

Multigrade classroom parallel plan

One period serving two grade groups with alternating teacher attention.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page. Test the self-running work: could a student complete it with zero teacher input?

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Self-running' work that needs the teacher — the worked-example-on-sheet rule prevents this

Paired-reading roles for mixed abilities

Reader/coach role cards so pairs support each other without stigma.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Coach card becomes a corrector card — 'only when asked' is the discipline

Scaffolded writing frame (fading support)

Sentence starters and paragraph frames that fade towards independence.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Starters that contain the answer — the structure/idea line matters

UDL options for one lesson (engage / represent / express)

Multiple means of engagement, representation and expression for the same outcome.

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Review: Check the goal survived in every version (same core questions); read all tiers aloud for equal-respect tone; no ability labels on any student-facing page.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The three expression routes get different difficulty — shared criteria keep them equivalent

Analogy bank for a hard concept

Three analogies with their breaking points, to choose deliberately.

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Review: Verify each mapping is faithful; plan to state the breaking point to students when the analogy retires.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Omits the breaking points — they are the safety feature; demand them

Closure routines beyond the exit ticket

Three closure options producing readable evidence in five minutes.

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Review: Pick one; the strong/weak descriptors become your quick marking guide.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Vague strong/weak descriptors — demand observable ones

Cross-subject connection segment

A ten-minute segment linking today's topic to another subject authentically.

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Review: Verify the other-subject content at its own textbook level.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Forced links — respect the 'flag if weak' instruction

Double-period / block lesson plan

A longer block with an energy reset in the middle.

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Review: Verify facts and terminology against the prescribed textbook; check timings sum to your period; confirm materials exist in your room.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Second arc becomes a lecture — insist it is application, not more explanation

First lesson of the year (norms + diagnostic)

Opening period that sets routines and quietly surfaces prior knowledge.

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Review: Check the diagnostic items map one-per-topic so your tally is meaningful.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Diagnostic feels like a test — the 'game' framing must survive in the actual items

Guided practice set with fading support

Four to six items that fade from fully-scaffolded to independent.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Fading too fast — check the middle items genuinely carry one hint

Homework set that extends (not repeats) the lesson

Short homework that practises today's skill plus one connection question.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Creeps past 20 minutes — count minutes per item

Lab/practical session plan with safety steps

A practical period with stations, safety notes and a results table.

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Review: Procedure must match the prescribed manual exactly — verify against it; check apparatus counts against your lab stock.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Invents apparatus your lab lacks · Procedure drifts from the prescribed manual — verify line by line

Lesson hooks (three options)

Three different openings for the same lesson, to choose by class mood.

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Review: Verify facts and terminology against the prescribed textbook; check timings sum to your period; confirm materials exist in your room.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Hooks that answer the lesson question — the no-conclusion rule matters

Lesson plan with built-in support and stretch

One plan whose activity phase carries a support scaffold and an extension.

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Review: Verify facts and terminology against the prescribed textbook; check timings sum to your period; confirm materials exist in your room.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Stretch becomes 'more of the same' — check it deepens

Revision lesson with retrieval practice

A pre-exam revision period built on retrieval, not re-teaching.

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Review: Solve every item yourself before trusting the key; check each item maps to a taught outcome; run the six-defect audit (ambiguity, keys, difficulty honesty, context bias, distractors, curriculum match).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Quiz skews to one chapter — demand an even mix

Story-based lesson for younger classes

A concept smuggled into a story, with the concept essential to the plot.

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Review: Read aloud once; check the concept truly drives the plot and the questions bridge to it.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Concept becomes decoration — the 'story fails without it' test catches this

Substitution-period standalone lesson

A zero-preparation, self-contained period for a class you don't normally teach.

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Review: Read the instructions aloud once before class; check the tiers genuinely differ.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Activity secretly requires subject knowledge — check you could run it cold

Teacher notes layer for an existing plan

Add timing warnings, questioning prompts and pitfalls to a plan you already have.

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Review: Your plan stays authoritative — accept notes selectively.

Privacy: Paste only your own plan content. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Rewrites the plan instead of annotating — restate 'without changing the plan'

Unit overview map (multi-lesson arc)

Plan a whole chapter as a sequence of connected periods before detailing any one.

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Review: Verify facts and terminology against the prescribed textbook; check timings sum to your period; confirm materials exist in your room.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Packs too much into early periods — check the load is even

Worked-example modelling script (think-aloud)

A board-ready worked example with the thinking said aloud at every step.

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Review: Verify facts and terminology against the prescribed textbook; check timings sum to your period; confirm materials exist in your room.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Script explains WHAT, not WHY — demand the 'because' sentence per step

Bilingual parent note (second language first)

Family communication led by the language parents read most comfortably.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: English column drafted first and Hindi squeezed to fit — the column order instruction resists this

Bilingual vocabulary table for a chapter

The chapter's key terms with textbook-aligned second-language equivalents.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. Check flagged rows against the second-language textbook — invented coinages break exam alignment.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Sanskritised coinages no textbook uses — the flag-if-uncertain instruction surfaces them

Classroom glossary wall cards (three languages)

Printable term cards honouring the languages your students speak.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. Have a speaker of each language check the flagged cards before printing.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Third-language equivalents invented — the flag-if-uncertain rule extends to every language

Five-error audit of a bilingual document

The full translation-review pass on any bilingual material before use.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. The audit assists your judgement; a human reader of both languages makes the final call.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Script issues invisible in plain text — check the final printed/displayed medium too

Natural code-switching explanation (as a teacher speaks)

Mixed-language explanation matching real classroom speech.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. Read aloud — if it doesn't sound like your classroom voice, adjust the register instruction.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Full translation instead of code-switching — 'as a teacher naturally speaks' is the instruction

Reading-level parity fixer for a translation

Bring an over-formal translation back to the source's register.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Register fix drifts the meaning — the old→new diff is your check

Rule-identical bilingual exam instructions

Instruction blocks where both languages state exactly the same rules.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. Check the back-translation line by line — 'any three' must round-trip as a choice.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: A choice becomes a command in translation — the back-translation exposes it

Second-language explanation with preserved English terms

Exam-critical terms stay in English exactly as the board paper uses them.

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Review: Run the three parity checks: back-translation for meaning drift, terminology table row-by-row, read-aloud for register. High-stakes bilingual content needs a human reviewer of both languages before use. Spot-check two preservation-report rows — trust, but verify.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: A term silently translated mid-text — the report makes it visible in seconds

Counterexample bank for a misconception

Three confrontations of different kinds, to choose the one your class feels.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Tells the failure instead of staging discovery — the question matters more than the example

Grammar/language error pattern intervention

Noticing activities for language overgeneralisation (not error drills).

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break. Overgeneralisation is developmental — celebrate the rule-learning while noticing exceptions.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Prescribes drills for a developmental stage — the case distinction is the point

Home practice note after remediation (general, no data)

A general note to all families supporting the week's reteach — no individual data.

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Review: Goes to every family identically — check nothing implies who 'needed' the reteach.

Privacy: This note contains no student data by design — never adapt it per child in a public tool. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Wording that hints at strugglers ('some children…') — it goes to everyone, neutrally

Post-remediation recheck (new surface, old-model distractors, transfer)

The recheck that distinguishes a rebuilt model from memorised answers.

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Review: Pre-commit your three decisions before administering: mastered → spaced review in two weeks; partial → second confrontation with a DIFFERENT analogy; unmoved → re-diagnose (the hypothesis was wrong).

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Reuses practised contexts — memory then passes for mastery

Practice set at the failure point

Items that start exactly where the old rule breaks and force model choice.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: No coincidence items — without them students pattern-match the new procedure

Reteach lesson plan (different route, same outcome)

A second full lesson using a different representation than the first attempt.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Reteach becomes recap — starting from the confrontation prevents this

Second analogy after a failed rebuild

A structurally different analogy when the first one didn't land.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: 'Different' analogies that are the same image renamed — structural difference is the ask

Single-cause thinking intervention (humanities)

Move students from one-cause explanations to weighted multi-cause reasoning.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The web becomes decoration — the ranking + counterfactual do the cognitive work

Small-group remediation station (while class works)

A 15-minute teacher-led micro-session run alongside independent class work.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break. Rotate station membership across topics so no group becomes 'the weak group'.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Class task needs the teacher mid-station — the worked-example rule keeps it self-running

Spaced review items (two weeks after remediation)

Three-item spaced check that catches quiet reversion.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The embedded item's context swamps the skill — keep it one-step

Student error-analysis worksheet (fictional work samples)

Students diagnose planted errors themselves — remediation as analysis.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break. The fictional-student framing protects real students — never use real work here.

Privacy: All work samples are fictional by design — never paste real student work. Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The two flawed solutions blur together — the misconception vs slip distinction is the lesson

Which-model-is-it class quiz

A quick quiz whose distractor choices map the class's models for you.

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Review: Verify the counterexample and every answer key against the textbook — a wrong confrontation entrenches the misconception it was meant to break.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Options don't cleanly map to one model each — the tally becomes noise

Age and cognitive-load review

Is this really pitched at the class — reading level, concept load, example fit?

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Reading-level tools disagree with judgement — your knowledge of the actual class decides

Answer-key cross-check protocol

A second solving pass on a key — supplementing (never replacing) your own.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. This is a SECOND pass: your own solving pass still happens; disagreements resolve against the textbook, never the AI.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Both the key and the check can share the same error — the textbook is the referee

Bias and inclusion audit of teaching content

Who appears, who is missing, who always leads — audited before students see it.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. Your students' own context appears first in the corrected version — check the flags.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Over-correction into tokenism — variety should read naturally, not as a checklist

SAFE review record for one output

The documented review that makes approval a decision — capstone evidence format.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. The blank judgement lines are the design: the record documents YOUR decision.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: The AI fills in the verdicts — the blank-lines instruction keeps judgement human

Source-quality ranking for a topic

Which sources should anchor teaching content — ranked with reasons.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. The prescribed textbook wins for exam alignment even where richer sources exist.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Web sources ranked above the prescribed text — exam alignment is the tiebreaker

Three-version output comparison

Deliberate iteration: compare outputs from prompt versions and attribute differences.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. Save the version you approve — approval belongs to a version, not a prompt.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Attribution guesswork if you changed multiple things per version — one change per version keeps it clean

Weekly verification drill (planted-error passage)

Keep your verification eye sharp with a self-test — errors disclosed after.

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Review: Verify against real sources, never the AI itself; look up every citation; the approve/revise/reject verdict is recorded and yours. A teaching drill for you — never present the passage to students as real content.

Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.

Known failure modes: Planted errors too obvious — ask for 'subtle' if the drill stops challenging you