Unit Planning with AI

📄️ Planning with Purpose

Unit planning is a skill. AI doesn't replace your teacher insights. Instead, it helps surface ideas, accelerates decision-making, provides a rapid sounding board, and enables efficiencies to direct more time for deeper impact in your classroom.

📄️ TL;DR - The Planning Flow

Here’s a quick breakdown of effective unit planning with AI:

📄️ Choose Your Tools

You can use many AI tools to do this. Below are some popular ones that each have options to provide the output in a live document you can edit directly.

📄️ Upload & Ground

Start by giving the AI the right context. That could be:

📄️ Set the AI's Role

Give your AI co-planner a clear job.

📄️ Start with Purpose

Great units begin with a clear direction. That could be specific outcomes, a targeted theme, intended skills development or a real-world context to connect learning.

📄️ Explore Teaching Approaches

Now that you have your unit's purpose and outcomes defined, it's time to explore the how, with strategies and approaches that bring your unit to life. This is where your teaching expertise shines.

📄️ Connect Approach to Purpose

With teaching strategies identified, the next step is connecting your chosen approaches to your unit's foundation.

📄️ Sequence the Learning

Let's build the flow. How long does the unit need to be; weeks, lessons, minutes? Do you want variety in your approaches or a consistent lesson structure with certain headings?

📄️ Refine the output

The power of using AI to iteratively build your resources means your teaching practice drives the planning and you stay informed as you make strategic decisions.

📄️ Review, Polish & Export

Your plan is coming together. Some units are designed to stand alone, complete with definitions, structured activities, and sequenced lesson steps. Others act more like a flexible scaffold that supports deeper lesson creation, tailored to student needs and your teaching practice.