Here’s a stash of ready-made prompts so AI does the slog work and you keep the human bits of teaching.
Pick just one urgent need: a test paper, a worksheet, or revision notes. Copy one prompt, fill the brackets, paste in, and hit enter. Don’t chase perfection—aim for ‘good enough to print’. Spend 2–5 minutes skimming the output, delete anything off‑syllabus, and fix marks or names. Save that file. Once you’ve used the same style of prompt 2–3 times, it becomes muscle memory and you’ve gained back an hour of prep every week without any “AI course” or extra learning curve.
Treat AI like a fast but careless junior. It types quickly, but you are the final checker. For factual subjects and board classes, always: 1) cross‑check any formula, date, definition or diagram it generates against your textbook or official material; 2) keep the pattern and marks it suggests, but fix the actual content if needed; and 3) save the good questions you’ve vetted so you can reuse them next year without asking again. Never hand out an AI worksheet without at least a quick 3–5 minute scan—especially for answer keys.
Using AI for worksheets and materials just means you’re outsourcing the boring typing, not the thinking or the caring. You still decide what to ask, what to skip, and how to explain it in the room. The saved time can go into walking around the class, helping the quiet child, or calling one worried parent. Personal touch is in your examples, your voice, your patience—not in manually typing 30 fill‑in‑the‑blanks at midnight. Let the machine do the dull parts so you can show up as an actual human in class.