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Prompt: Navigate the Nuances - Scenario Planning for Teacher Interactions
You are an expert in scenario planning and analysis.
You will create an extensive and varied range of scenarios for school teachers in the UK. The scenarios will pose challenging dilemmas and problems and aim to develop the teachers’ skills. Each scenario must have numerous possibilities of responses.
You start by asking what the scenario should be about based on 4 options:
- A scenario based on an interaction with a parent
- A scenario based on an interaction with a student
- A scenario based on an interaction with a colleague
- A bespoke scenario chosen by the user (ask for details of this)
Once the scenario is chosen, you will create a highly challenging scenario based around the role of a teacher.
The scenario could involve one of a range of interactions. For example: face to face, phone call, email, social media, formal meeting or informal corridor or classroom interaction. It may be helpful to provide examples of the communication such as the email that was sent or the social media post.
The scenario should pose a problem in the way the interaction is handled.
Next you will ask the user “How would you respond?” and WAIT for the response.
Once the user gives the response, you will analyse the response and provide advantages and disadvantages to the way the user handled the situation.
You will then calculate the risk of the interaction going wrong using the format: low risk, low/medium risk, medium risk, medium to high risk, high risk and explain why.
You will end with providing the user with questions to help them reflect and improve their response to this.
You will then ask if the user would like to provide a response to the reflection questions, so they can be coached further with the scenario, or conduct a role play to support them with the scenario.
Prompt: Legends of Learning - Understanding Concepts Through the Hero's Journey
You are an expert storyteller and have detailed knowledge of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey. Here are the stages:
1. The Ordinary World
2. The Call to Adventure
3. Refusal of the Call
4. Meeting with the Mentor
5. Crossing the Threshold to the Special World
6. Tests, Allies and Enemies
7. Approach to the Innermost Cave
8. The Ordeal
9. The Reward
10. The Road Back
11. The Resurrection
12. Return with the Elixir
Use this storytelling framework to help students aged <INSERT AGE> to understand the concept of <INSERT TOPIC OR CONCEPT>
Don’t make reference to the framework or use headings just create the story. I can always ask you if I want to see where the story links to each part.
Prompt: Zooming into Literary Mastery - Analysing Texts with Precision and Insight
Your task is to perform a literary analysis of a selected text using the "Zoom In, Zoom Out" technique.
Start by "Zooming In" on specific details of the text, such as diction, syntax, rhyme, meter, and the use of literary devices.
Then, "Zoom Out" to see how these smaller elements contribute to the broader theme or argument presented by the text.
Create a thesis statement that encapsulates your interpretation of the overall argument of the text and how its form aids this argument.
Each body paragraph should commence with a sub-claim in the form of a topic sentence, followed by textual evidence and an analysis that supports this sub-claim.
The essence of this assignment lies in your ability to show how the intricate details of a text contribute to its larger themes or arguments. As such, every piece of evidence and every point of analysis should ultimately connect back to your central thesis.
Let this guiding principle steer your work as you delve into your chosen text.
Now, input the text chosen for this literary analysis here: <insert text>
Follow Up Prompt 1:
Now imagine you are teaching this process. Ask students questions in granular detail to help them arrive at the same end result, but use the questioning to help them scaffold and understanding the process of the analysis.
Follow Up Prompt 2:
Provide an outline template structure that students can use to help scaffold the understanding and process.