Staff Prompt Library
This prompt library provides structured examples to support planning, assessment, differentiation, communication and strategic development.
It is based on the INSPIRE framework, ensuring each prompt includes clear intent, defined stage, specific parameters and an expectation of review and refinement. Prompts are starting points and must always be reviewed, adapted and aligned with Curriculum for Excellence, safeguarding guidance and local authority expectations.
Prompt Sections
- Curriculum Planning & Learning Design
- Supporting Learners with Specific Needs
- Assessment & Feedback
- Integrating AI into Learning
- Integrating CRIS & Digital Wellbeing
- Integrating iPad Use
- Trip & Event Planning
- Strategic Planning & Leadership
Curriculum Planning & Learning Design
Lesson Plan: Create a detailed 50-minute lesson plan for an S2 class on renewable energy that includes a clear learning intention, three measurable success criteria, a starter activity to activate prior knowledge, a collaborative main task, one retrieval activity and a reflective plenary, ensuring the lesson supports mixed-ability learners and promotes active engagement.
Project-Based Learning: Develop a six-week interdisciplinary project for P7 linking science and literacy around sustainability, outlining weekly learning focus, skills progression, formative assessment opportunities and a final presentation task, ensuring alignment with Curriculum for Excellence principles.
Success Criteria Refinement: Rewrite the following learning intention into three clear, measurable “I can” success criteria suitable for S1 learners, ensuring they are observable, assessable and aligned to intended knowledge and skills: [Insert learning intention].
Retrieval Practice: Generate five retrieval practice questions on [topic] suitable for [stage], including a mix of recall and application questions and brief answers for staff reference.
Supporting Learners with Specific Needs
Reading Level Adjustment: Rewrite the following text so it is suitable for a learner working approximately two years below expected reading level, maintaining key vocabulary and core factual content while simplifying sentence structure and reducing complexity: [Insert text].
Scaffolded Writing Frame: Create a structured writing frame for an S3 essay on the causes of World War I that includes paragraph prompts, sentence starters, key vocabulary reminders and a short self-check checklist to support organisation.
Task Breakdown: Break the following assignment into clear, step-by-step instructions suitable for a learner who requires additional structure, including sequencing, suggested time allocations and a simple completion checklist: [Insert task].
Alternative Explanation: Explain [concept] using a clear real-life analogy suitable for a learner who is struggling to understand the standard explanation.
Assessment & Feedback
Practice Exam Questions: Generate five Higher-level practice questions on photosynthesis using command words typical of national qualification assessments, including brief marking guidance but not full model answers.
Formative Feedback: Provide three formative feedback comments for a pupil demonstrating partial understanding of fractions, with each comment identifying one strength, one area for development and one clear next step.
Marking Checklist: Create a marking checklist for an assignment on [topic], aligned to knowledge, analysis and evaluation skills.
Self-Assessment Rubric: Develop a pupil-friendly self-assessment rubric for a project on [topic], written in clear, accessible language.
Integrating AI into Learning
AI Evaluation Lesson: Design a 40-minute S2 lesson introducing how to critically evaluate AI-generated responses, including a comparison task with trusted sources, structured discussion questions about bias and accuracy and a reflective plenary.
Pupil Prompt Modelling: Generate three example revision prompts that S1 pupils could use when revising algebra, ensuring each prompt specifies stage level, includes format or word limits and encourages explanation of reasoning.
AI Literacy Introduction: Create a short lesson outline introducing AI literacy concepts suitable for P7 learners, focusing on questioning accuracy and understanding that AI systems are human-created tools.
Integrating CRIS & Digital Wellbeing
CRIS Discussion: Create structured discussion prompts for a P6 lesson exploring responsible AI use aligned with CRIS (Care, Respect, Inclusion and Safety), including one scenario-based question and one class agreement statement.
Digital Reflection Activity: Design a reflection activity for S3 pupils evaluating whether AI use in a recent task supported or replaced their thinking, including three structured reflection questions.
Responsible Use Agreement: Draft a short pupil agreement outlining expectations for safe, respectful and ethical AI use in class.
Integrating iPad Use
iPad-Enhanced Lesson: Design a collaborative S1 geography lesson using iPads that includes a research stage, creation stage and peer feedback stage, with clear success criteria and strategies to maintain focus.
Accessibility Features: Suggest practical ways to use built-in iPad accessibility tools to support a learner with reading difficulties during a persuasive writing lesson.
Workflow Planning: Create a structured workflow for using iPads alongside AI tools in a lesson while maintaining assessment integrity and minimising distraction.
Trip & Event Planning
Trip Planning Checklist: Create a structured planning checklist for organising a STEM trip for S2 learners that includes curriculum links, risk assessment headings, cost considerations, communication steps and a post-trip reflection activity.
Educational Rationale: Draft a concise proposal outlining the educational value of a visit to a local engineering employer, explicitly linking the experience to Developing the Young Workforce principles and transferable skills.
Parent Communication: Write a professional and concise parent letter explaining a school trip to [location], outlining purpose, key information and expected learning impact.
Strategic Planning & Leadership
New Course Development: Create a high-level outline for introducing a new National 5 Environmental Science course, including rationale, skills development, assessment structure, resource considerations and potential interdisciplinary links.
DYW Integration: Suggest practical strategies for embedding Developing the Young Workforce within a secondary computing course, including employer engagement ideas and real-world problem-solving contexts.
AI Impact Review: Generate structured reflective questions for a senior leadership team reviewing the impact of AI integration across a school, covering learning outcomes, staff workload, safeguarding considerations and assessment integrity.
INSPIRE Prompt Libraries
Explore our Learner Prompt Libraries for additional examples suitable to be shared with learners at each stage.
