Education Skills skills

Design a professional development session using adult learning principles with active teacher engagement. Use when planning INSET days, CPD workshops, or staff training sessions.

Provide graduated assistance from abstract conceptual nudge to concrete procedural step, with reflection required before each escalation. Teaches help-seeking as a skill and prevents direct-answer shortcuts.

Redesign a blocked topic sequence into an interleaved plan with mixed practice across related topics. Use when planning units, homework schedules, or revision programmes.

Script a multi-turn tutoring dialogue with branching responses for anticipated student difficulties. Use when designing AI tutors, chatbot interactions, or structured one-to-one support scripts.

Generate a scaffolded sequence of practice problems with graduated difficulty and strategic variability. Use when creating worksheets, homework sets, or independent practice materials.

Design a focused lesson observation protocol with specific look-fors and evidence collection methods. Use when planning peer observations, coaching visits, or developmental classroom visits.

Design a complete document-based history lesson using the Reading Like a Historian four-part structure. Use when planning a primary source inquiry lesson or converting a textbook lesson into document-based investigation.

Map curriculum connections across multiple subjects for a real-world problem or authentic context. Use when planning cross-curricular projects or connecting content to real issues.

Analyse student work against criteria to identify specific gaps between current performance and learning objectives. Use when reviewing submissions, planning feedback, or diagnosing learning needs.

Identify and navigate genuine dilemmas in curriculum, school, or community contexts — tensions between competing goods that cannot be solved, only navigated. Produces a structured dilemma map with both poles named and both/and possibilities.

Before any explanation or answer, require the learner to produce a free-recall attempt and confidence rating. Use when a student wants help understanding or reviewing a topic — this skill ensures the AI works from what the learner already knows.

Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. Use when reviewing or quality-assuring assessments before deployment.

Build students' capacity to place historical documents in their temporal and social context. Use when students read sources without considering what was happening at the time, or know the context but don't deploy it.

Design an inquiry sequence anchored in a local ecosystem that embeds science or geography curriculum content. Use when teaching through local living systems like gardens, ponds, or hedgerows.

Generate a criterion-referenced rubric with descriptive performance levels for a task or objective. Use for marking guides and general curriculum contexts. For Manning programmes where Competent = success, use coherent-rubric-logic-builder instead.

Modify a lesson plan using SIOP sheltered instruction principles to support language learners across all four skills. Use when planning lessons for classes that include EAL students.

Select and sequence reading comprehension strategies matched to a specific text's challenges and demands. Use when students struggle with a text or need targeted reading support.

Build a learning progression showing prerequisite-to-mastery steps for a target skill or understanding. Use when sequencing content, designing diagnostics, or mapping prerequisite gaps.

Design trauma-informed classroom practices that prioritise safety, predictability, connection, and regulation. Use when student behaviour may be trauma-related or the class needs a sensitive approach.

Map systemic forces shaping a wellbeing concern without individualising the problem. Uses Bronfenbrenner's ecological model and social determinants to generate structural interventions.

Generate argument structure scaffolds using Toulmin, PEEL, or CER frameworks for a specific claim or question. Use when teaching argumentative or analytical writing across any subject.

Design targeted interventions that strengthen belonging and inclusion for specific classroom dynamics. Use when students feel isolated, cliques form, or new students need integrating.

Design a checking-for-understanding protocol with specific techniques for each lesson stage. Use when planning systematic comprehension checks during explicit or direct instruction.

Build students' capacity to read historical documents closely — attending to word choice, tone, and rhetoric as evidence of perspective. Use when students summarise sources without analysing language.