The best prompts for education

These prompts cover three connected jobs in teaching and learning: planning a lesson, preparing to be assessed, and checking what has been learned. They are written for teachers, tutors, trainers and students, and each one expects you to bring something of your own: the class and its resources for a lesson plan, your notes or readings for a study guide, the text learners were given for a quiz.

Pick the lesson plan prompt when you are deciding what will happen in a single session and need objectives, timings and checks for understanding. Pick the study guide prompt when the content already exists and the task is to learn it before a deadline. Pick the quiz generator when you want questions, whether for a class, a training group or yourself. The three combine well: a lesson plan's objectives can feed a quiz, and quiz results show a student which parts of the study guide to revisit.

A model can draft quickly, keep to a structure and produce many practice questions on request. It does not know your students, your curriculum or what your instructor will examine, and it can state incorrect facts or key the wrong answer with complete confidence. The prompts here limit that risk by restricting content to the material you supply, marking facts for the teacher to check, and separating answers from questions. They produce drafts. Professional judgment about what a particular group of learners needs, and a careful check of every fact and answer, remain with you.