11 AI prompts every teacher should have in their back pocket

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I’m excited to have a new semester underway. As a resource for my fellow educators, I’m updating a piece I wrote for The 74, the nonprofit education news site. The average K-12 teacher works 49 hours a week. About a quarter of that time is uncompensated. In higher ed, adjuncts make up about 40% of the faculty workforce. At many institutions, time spent on course prep and administrative tasks is unpaid. Most teachers I know didn’t become educators to spend evenings generating quiz questions, rewriting instructions, or filling out administrative paperwork. AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini won’t change these realities. But when you’re overwhelmed, they can help streamline tedious tasks. They can free up energy for what only a human teacher can do. When used thoughtfully, these tools can actually push us to be more creative. They can help us overcome teaching ruts, nudging us to revitalize how we show up in the classroom. A 60-second guide to prompting The first step to making the most of artificial intelligence is understanding how to use pr…