📊 Anchor Chart: The Prompt Formula
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EVERY GOOD PROMPT INCLUDES:
👤
WHO
Grade level, Disability, Specific needs
📜
WHAT
Goal, lesson, email, activity, data sheet
⚙
HOW
Format, length, reading level, visual supports
🌐
WHY
Purpose, goal alignment, how it's used
Include 3-4 of these elements in EVERY prompt!
🔒 Anchor Chart: Privacy Quick Check
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🔑 BEFORE EVERY PROMPT, CHECK:
⚠ CAUTION WITH PII
If you must use Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like:
- Student names, DOB, IDs
- Parent names, addresses
- Specific disability status
You MUST be logged into your
@ssd.k12.mo.us account.
✅ ALWAYS USE
- "A 3rd grader"
- "My student"
- "Student A"
- Generic descriptions
- @ssd.k12.mo.us login
⚠ WHEN IN DOUBT, LEAVE IT OUT!
📝 Gemini Cheat Sheet
🍀 GEMINI FEATURES
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Chat | Conversation AI |
| Image | Generate visuals |
| Canvas | Visual planning |
| Gems | Custom prompts |
| Extensions | Connect apps |
📝 PROMPT FRAMEWORKS
| Framework | Description |
|---|---|
| CRAFT | Context, Role, Action, Format, Tone |
| TAG | Task, Action, Goal |
| STAR | Situation, Task, Action, Result |
📖 KEY TERMS
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Prompt | Your instruction |
| Output | AI's response |
| Iterate | Refine & improve |
| Context | Background |
| Hallucination | AI errors |
🌐 AUTISM/SENSORY
- Visual schedules
- Social stories
- Sensory breaks
- Task analysis
- First-Then boards
📚 ELL SUPPORTS
- Simplified vocabulary
- Bilingual word lists
- Sentence frames
- Visual glossaries
- Cognates
💜 INTELLECTUAL
- Adapted reading
- Picture supports
- Chunked steps
- Life skills
- Repetition
📚 LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Graphic organizers
- Multi-sensory
- Scaffolded work
- Extended time
- Text-to-speech scripts
💜 BEHAVIOR
- Behavior plans
- Token economies
- De-escalation
- Self-monitoring
- Replacement behaviors
⚡ QUICK COMMANDS
- "Simplify to ____ grade"
- "Add pictures"
- "Visual schedule"
- "Bilingual supports"
- "Break into steps"
🚨 EMERGENCY PROMPTS
📝 Sub plans ASAP: "Create SPED sub plans: schedule, behavior supports, sensory breaks, contacts"
📝 Parent call: "Draft talking points for parent call about [behavior] — solution-focused"
📝 Progress report due: "Write narrative for [goals]: data, observations, next steps"
📝 Accommodation Translator
| IEP SAYS... | ASK GEMINI... |
|---|---|
| Extended time (1.5x) | "Modify to have fewer questions while keeping rigor" |
| Preferential seating | "Create a desk focus reminder card" |
| Chunked assignments | "Break into 3 parts with stopping points" |
| Simplified directions | "Rewrite at 2nd grade level with numbered steps" |
| Visual supports | "Add picture descriptions for each step" |
| Frequent breaks | "Build in 3 brain breaks for 45-minute lesson" |
| Read aloud | "Create script with expression cues and pauses" |
| Graphic organizer | "Turn into visual format with boxes and arrows" |
| Modified assignments | "Adapt for student 2 years below level" |
| Behavior support | "Create self-monitoring checklist for [goal]" |
💻 IEP Goal Bank
| AREA | PROMPT | SAVES |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | "Write 5 measurable reading fluency goals for 3rd grader at 1st grade level" | 30m |
| Math | "Create IEP goals for functional math: money, time, measurement" | 25m |
| Writing | "Generate written expression goals for organization and mechanics" | 20m |
| Behavior | "Write 3 goals: work completion, emotional regulation, peer interactions" | 35m |
| Social | "Create social skills goals for autism: conversation, perspective-taking" | 30m |
| Life Skills | "Generate transition goals: daily living, job readiness, community" | 25m |
| Speech | "Write articulation and language goals for apraxia with objectives" | 20m |
| Motor | "Create fine/gross motor goals for OT/PT with criteria" | 25m |
| Executive | "Generate executive functioning goals: organization, time, initiation" | 30m |
| Advocacy | "Write self-advocacy goals for transition to post-secondary" | 20m |
👤 Student Profiles
👤 Marcus • 4th Grade
Autism, sensory sensitivities, needs visual schedules. Strong math, struggles with writing.
PROMPTS THAT WORK:
- ► "Create visual schedule with picture icons and 5-min transition warnings."
- ► "Write social story about fire drills."
- ► "Design choice board for writing with 6 options."
👤 Sofia • 2nd Grade • ELL Level 2
Spanish speaker, emerging English. Strong math, struggles with vocabulary.
PROMPTS THAT WORK:
- ► "Create bilingual vocabulary list (Spanish/English) with pictures."
- ► "Simplify word problems: challenging math, basic vocabulary."
- ► "Write sentence frames for science observations."
👤 Jayden • 7th Grade
Emotional/behavioral, trauma history. Responds to choice and relationships.
PROMPTS THAT WORK:
- ► "Create calm-down menu: 5 in-classroom, 5 out-of-classroom."
- ► "Write positive behavior contract."
- ► "Generate 5 ways to give choices within tasks."
👤 Emma • 10th Grade
SLD in reading/writing. Average IQ, decodes at 5th grade. Strong verbal skills.
PROMPTS THAT WORK:
- ► "Adapt biology chapter to 6th grade reading, keep 10th grade content."
- ► "Create graphic organizer for essay writing."
- ► "Write discussion questions for verbal response."
👤 David • Life Skills, Age 16
Moderate ID, functional academics. Working on independence and pre-vocational skills.
PROMPTS THAT WORK:
- ► "Create task analysis for making sandwich: 10 steps with pictures."
- ► "Generate grocery checklist with pictures for 5 items."
- ► "Write social script for ordering at restaurant."
📝 Prompt Stacks by Category
| Category | Prompt |
|---|---|
| 🌐 AUTISM/SENSORY | "Create visual daily schedule with picture icons and transition warnings" |
| 🌐 AUTISM/SENSORY | "Write social story about handling disappointment with coping strategies" |
| 🌐 AUTISM/SENSORY | "Design sensory break menu: 4 alerting, 4 calming activities" |
| 🌐 AUTISM/SENSORY | "Create task analysis for hand washing: 8 steps with pictures" |
| 📚 LEARNING DISABILITY | "Simplify reading to 3rd grade level, add vocabulary definitions" |
| 📚 LEARNING DISABILITY | "Create graphic organizer for 5-paragraph essay with sentence starters" |
| 📚 LEARNING DISABILITY | "Generate 10 money word problems with simple vocabulary" |
| 🌐 ELL | "Create bilingual vocabulary list with Spanish/English and pictures" |
| 🌐 ELL | "Write sentence frames for lab reports" |
| 🌐 ELL | "Simplify directions for newcomer: numbered steps, basic vocabulary" |
| 💜 INTELLECTUAL | "Create task analysis for making bed: 6 steps with pictures" |
| 💜 INTELLECTUAL | "Create shopping activity: 5 items, pictures, money counting" |
| 💜 BEHAVIOR | "Create calm-down checklist: breathing, sensory, thinking prompts" |
| 💜 BEHAVIOR | "Create behavior contract for work completion with daily tracking" |
| 💜 BEHAVIOR | "Generate 5 replacement behaviors for arguing with scripts" |
📝 Before & After - Prompt Makeovers
Lesson Planning
❌ WEAK
"Make a lesson plan about fractions"
✅ STRONG
"Create 45-min lesson on adding fractions with unlike denominators for 5th grade. Include visuals, partner practice, 3 exit ticket levels."
💡 RESULT: Detailed lesson with pizza slice hook, fraction bars, differentiated work, tiered exit tickets.
IEP Goals
❌ WEAK
"Write a reading goal"
✅ STRONG
"Write measurable IEP goal for 3rd grader at DRA 14 needing fluency. Current: 45 wpm. Include 3 objectives."
💡 RESULT: Annual goal with baseline, target (75 wpm), 3 objectives at 55/65/75 wpm, bi-weekly monitoring.
Behavior
❌ WEAK
"Help with behavior"
✅ STRONG
"Student yells out 10+ times/class. Create self-monitoring system, replacement behavior script, reinforcement for 4th grader motivated by computer time."
💡 RESULT: Complete system: tally sheet, social story, token board earning 5 min computer for 10 hand-raises.