Copy, Paste, Create: AI Made Easy with Templates

Virtual Session
Presented by Sharon Hall

Session Description:

Transform your daily teaching tasks with ready-to-use AI templates that require no technical expertise. Explore practical 2-3 sentence prompts for creating emails, vocabulary lists, rubrics, parent conference prep, and more. This session focuses on copy-paste simplicity, showing educators how to harness AI’s power for professional communications, instructional planning, assessment, and professional growth without becoming tech experts.

Objectives:
    • Use 4 different AI prompt templates immediately in their practice.
    • Adapt basic templates to their specific classroom contexts.
    • Create professional communications, instructional materials, and planning resources using AI.
    • Understand when and why to use different prompt strategies.
    • Feel confident taking first steps with AI tools in education.

Copy of Copy, Paste, Create AI Made Easy with Templates (Presentation)

Try It Activity:

Practice Makes Permanent
Research shows that applying new knowledge helps it stick. After watching the webinar, take a few minutes to complete the “Try It” activity. These hands-on tasks are simple, focused, and designed to reinforce key concepts so you can confidently use them in your classroom.

Try-It Activity Objective: Identify a real classroom task, customize an AI template, and generate a usable resource in minutes. Share your creation and suggest tips for other educators.

Estimated Time Required: 15 minutes

Practice using templates:
Follow these steps to practice customizing a template and generate a useful resource for your classroom.

Choose Your Challenge & Template

  • Identify one current task/challenge from your teaching practice
  • Use the document with templates shared during the session, then select the template category that best addresses your need
  • Choose the specific template demonstrated in that category
  • Access a free AI platform (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)

Customize & Create

  • Copy the template and customize it for your specific situation
  • Input your template into an AI platform
  • Generate your resource (email, rubric, vocabulary list, etc.)
  • Refine or regenerate as needed

Share Your Success

  • Take a screenshot of your AI-generated resource
  • Craft a social media post about your experience
  • Required elements for post:
    • Share the template category you used
    • What you created (without sharing student-specific content)
    • One tip to help other educators when trying AI templates
    • Tag @TeachersFirst on X and use #TeachersFirstAI or email to ok2ask@sflinc.org

Upon completion of this activity, you leave with a finished resource you can use tomorrow and a clear, repeatable process you can apply to your next teaching task. Expand your journey with AI templates by exploring the resources shared below.

Resource Materials:

In this Resource Materials section, you will find reference materials, tutorials, and how-to information that will help you review or extend your knowledge from the presentation.

Resources from TeachersFirst

Other Resources

Mentioned During the Session

Videos

In-the-Classroom:

Our In-the-Classroom section is where you will find ideas and examples for integrating the tools shared into classroom instruction.

 

 

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