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Nadia's Thursday, Two Ways

9 lessons · 26 prompts

A day in the life of a Preschool Teacher: what changes with these prompts.

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Nadia is a lead preschool teacher in a mixed-age classroom of three- and four-year-olds.

Nadia arrives at 7:30 with a puddle theme in mind but no full plan. She opens ChatGPT and uses the Plan Daily Lessons prompt: 'Create a preschool day around rain and puddles for ages three and four, with circle time questions, a sensory bin, and a short story.' She adjusts the songs and prints the plan.

At cleanup, two children race the bikes inside. Nadia remembers the Guide Behavior And Routines prompt and asks Claude for calm transition ideas and kind redirection language. It suggests a visual five-minute warning and a cleanup song. She tries the song, and the room settles.

During free play, she notices a quiet child stacking blocks to make a bridge. She types her notes into Gemini with the Track Child Development prompt: 'Turn these notes into a clear observation record without guessing beyond what I saw.' The draft names the child's persistence and problem solving, and she edits it to match her memory.

After nap, she uses the Communicate With Parents prompt to write a short newsletter about the puddle week, including one line about asking families to send extra socks. She finishes before pickup instead of staying late. Nadia uses the extra half hour to sit with the children during snack and then leaves on time to walk her dog.

Before

  • Planning at home after bedtime
  • Parent notes wait until Friday
  • Routines feel rushed and loud
  • Observations pile up in a notebook

After this course

  • Plans ready before the children arrive
  • Parent updates go out same day
  • Transitions use songs and visual cues
  • Observation notes are clear and current

What you'll learn

  • Plan Daily Lessons: Turn a theme into a full day of age-appropriate activities, questions, and materials.
  • Teach Early Literacy: Create playful letter, sound, rhyming, and story time activities.
  • Organize Creative Activities: Brainstorm process art, sensory play, and music ideas with setup and cleanup steps.
  • Guide Behavior And Routines: Plan calm transitions, visual routines, and kind redirection language.
  • Track Child Development: Turn your notes into clear observation records and progress summaries.
  • Communicate With Parents: Write warm updates, newsletters, and conference notes parents can act on.
  • Support Every Learner: Adapt activities and create social stories without making a diagnosis.
  • Admin And Reflection: Speed up routine paperwork and supply planning, then review what worked to adjust your plans.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from plan daily lessons to reflect and improve teaching.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.