For Professionals · 17 prompts

The Teacher's Planning Desk

Lesson plans, differentiation and parent emails in a fraction of the time.

17 prompts for classroom teachers: lesson plans, differentiated tasks, rubrics, quiz questions, feedback comments, parent communication and classroom routines. Saves planning time while you keep professional judgement over every output.

What's inside

Every prompt in the PDF, listed by section.

Plan

  1. 01Lesson plan
  2. 02Unit overview
  3. 03Lesson hook ideas
  4. 04Cross-curricular link

Differentiate

  1. 05Three-level task
  2. 06Simplify a text
  3. 07Support for language learners

Assess

  1. 08Quiz generator
  2. 09Rubric builder
  3. 10Exit tickets
  4. 11Feedback comment bank

Communicate

  1. 12Parent newsletter
  2. 13Tricky parent email
  3. 14Report comment starter

Classroom

  1. 15Routines and expectations
  2. 16Behaviour reset script
  3. 17Substitute plan

Sample prompts

Three of the 17, so you can see how specific they are. The PDF has the rest, plus a short introduction.

Plan

Lesson plan

Write a [minutes]-minute lesson plan for [grade] [subject] on [topic], aligned to [curriculum/standard]. Include a learning objective, hook, direct teaching, guided practice, independent task, plenary and how I'll check understanding.

Plan

Unit overview

Plan a [weeks]-week unit on [topic] for [grade]. Show the sequence of lessons, key vocabulary, one formative assessment per week and a final assessment idea.

Plan

Lesson hook ideas

Give 8 engaging 5-minute starters to open a lesson on [topic] for [grade]: a puzzle, a provocative question, an image, a mini-experiment, a role-play.

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