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10 AI prompts that take real work off your plate this week
Copy, paste, teach. One page each, written for college teachers.
Page 3 of 10, exactly as it arrives
- 1. Cheat Your Own Assignment: find what AI can fake before your students do
- 2. Feedback Feeds Forward: margin notes become next steps students take
- 3. The Single-Point Rubric: one column of what "good" means
- 4. Exit Tickets: know what stuck today, not at the midterm
- 5. Diagnostic Questions: wrong answers that tell you what to reteach
- 6. Three On-Ramps, One Task: the differentiation you keep postponing, in one pass
- 7. Retrieval on Autopilot: your notes become a question bank that resurfaces for weeks
- 8. The Reply-Worthy Email: the note that gets a quiet student to respond
- 9. The Rec Letter Engine: three true details in, a letter that sounds like the student
- 10. The Scrub Check: what never goes into AI, caught before you paste
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From Doan Winkel: entrepreneurship professor, Founding Director of the Bill & Sue Donnelly School of Leadership and Social Innovation, cofounder of a curriculum used at ~200 colleges. 20,000+ teachers read the newsletter these prompts come from.
Who is this for?
College teachers who have poked at ChatGPT but still use it like Google. Every prompt assumes zero prompting skill and a real Tuesday.
What do I need?
Any free chat AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. Copy a page, paste it, fill in the brackets.
How does it arrive?
The download appears the second you submit, one clean PDF, and a copy lands in your inbox. Not there? Email dwinkel2@gmail.com.