Audit your week before you hand the first task over
Lesson 1 of 5 · The teacher's week
1 · Learn the move · Template pattern
A teacher picks the first AI job from whatever the August training was excited about: a lesson generator, a feedback machine. Pick it from your own week instead. Write down what you did, how long it took, and whether a student was in front of you by name while you did it. Then sort every line into four piles: DRAFT (a first version from a shape, no student needed), CHECK (a second read of something you wrote), MINE (a decision about a child, which the tool never makes), and NEVER (anything that needs a student's name or record to do at all). The first job is the biggest line in DRAFT. It is almost never the feedback stack, because feedback needs the work and the work has a name on it; it is almost always the planning, the sub plan, or the parent-night handout. No student goes in by name for any of it, and the decision stays yours on the lines marked MINE.
Here is my week, one line per task with the time it took and whether a student's name or record was in front of me: [paste, with every student taken out]. Sort every line into DRAFT (a first version from a shape alone), CHECK (a second read of my own writing), MINE (a decision about a student) or NEVER (needs a name or a record to do at all). For each line, one reason. Then name the single largest DRAFT line as the first job and say what I would paste for it, with no student in it. Do not pick a job from the MINE or NEVER piles.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A seventh-grade ELA teacher at Larkspur Middle, three weeks into the semester, lists her week: two unit-planning sessions, the feedback stack of 93 essays, eleven emails to families, a sub plan, a parent-night handout, a data meeting with the grade team, and four conferences with students. The sort puts planning, the sub plan and the handout in DRAFT; the emails in CHECK; the conferences and the data meeting in MINE; the essays, which carry names and a grade, in NEVER unless she redacts a sample. The first job is the unit planning, at six hours.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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