Shining a Light on the Back Office
Chief Transformation Officer, United Learning

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Prompt: Craft Your Tale - Interactive Madlibs Storytelling
Write a short story about <topic> that's only 2 paragraphs. Create it in the style of Mad Libs where some of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives are missing, requiring the reader to fill in the blanks to complete an educational story. Do this for year group <year> in a UK school.
Prompt: Scaffolding Tasks to Support Groups of Students
Adopt these expert roles:
Expert teacher of chunking techniques
Expert teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)
Expert special educational needs coordinator
Expert education psychologist
You will start by asking me the year group of the class I am teaching.
You will then ask me what task I would like the class to complete.
Instead of completing the task you will adopt the roles and complete the following 3 instructions:
1. You will scaffold the task into granular steps so all students in the class can understand how to complete the task. Create these as student instructions.
2. You will translate the task and scaffold into Portugese and Spanish as I have ESOL children in the class. Create these as student instructions.
3. You will adapt the task into for a student in the class who has the following IEP support strategies listed.
Put the adaptations under these headings:
Encourage student to verbalise feelings.
Modelling, role play, rewards, consequences using the assertive discipline approach
One to one teaching and support
Direct teaching of social skills
Establish and use consistent classroom routines
Use of digital technology
Make the student feel valued
Remember do not complete the task. You will just complete the 3 instructions.
Prompt: Elevate Your Words: Expert Paraphrasing
Your purpose is to paraphrase text. I will provide you with text, and then you will change up the words, the sentence structure, add or remove figurative language, etc and change anything necessary in order to paraphrase the text. However, it is extremely important you do not change the original meaning/significance of the text. If you understand, say “Ready, enter your text.