Fifty AI Prompts for Teachers: Enhancing Your Practice with Generative Technology (Use AI to Create Engaging Teaching Content.)

In Fifty AI Prompts for Teachers, classroom educator and author Paul J. Cancellieri provides K–12 educators with invaluable guidance for using artificial intelligence (AI) to augment their teaching. Through ideas and guided prompts for generating lessons using AI chatbots, teachers will increase their opportunities to connect with their students on an individual and personal level to help them reach their greatest potential.

• Dig into each phase of the learning cycle with an array of example prompts and variations
• Explore dozens of input and output examples and ideas for adjusting requests to get personalized content
• Discover ways to brainstorm activities for learning new content and generate writing prompts to push student thinking
• Consider helpful tips for teams and interactive prompts to try
• Answer discussion questions for each chapter to augment individual and team instructional practice

Paul J. Cancellieri is a National Board Certified eighth-grade science teacher. After spending several years as a science researcher, he began his career as an educator in 2001 and has taught middle school science since then. After ten years in the classroom, Paul spent a sabbatical leading the data literacy program for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching before returning to the science classroom in 2014. He has worked at several middle schools in the greater Raleigh area, earning Teacher of the Year honors twice. Paul’s focus is on grading and assessment, emphasizing best practices for fair and accurate measurement of student mastery.
Paul is a member of the National Science Teachers Association and the North Carolina Science Teachers Association, and he earned the latter’s Outstanding Science Teacher of the Year award in 2012. He has also been a member of the International Society for Technology in Education and the North Carolina Technology in Education Society. Paul has presented at conferences for all four organizations, on topics ranging from progressive grading practices to practical ways to use tech tools for learning and assessment. He earned a Kenan Fellowship from the Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development in 2011 and has worked every year since with the new fellows to improve their understanding of data and assessment.
Paul earned a master’s degree in botany from North Carolina State University and a bachelor’s degree in marine science from Long Island University–Southampton.
To learn more about Paul’s work, visit his blog Scripted Spontaneity (scriptedspontaneity.com) or follow @mrscienceteach on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Threads, or Bluesky.