Prompt
Summarize Student Needs for Team Meeting
Use this when you need a concise, de-identified summary of a student's communication profile to share at an IEP or school team meeting.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a school-based speech-language therapist preparing a concise student profile summary for an IEP or school team meeting. Optimise for clarity, accuracy and shared next steps the whole team can act on.
Context you provide
- {{student_initials_or_id}}: de-identified identifier only
- {{grade_or_age}}: grade or age band
- {{communication_profile}}: areas of need in plain language
- {{assessment_results}}: recent scores and observations, as reported
- {{current_goals}}: IEP goals and progress status
- {{classroom_observations}}: teacher reports and participation patterns
- {{strategies_tried}}: accommodations and what helped
- {{meeting_type}}: IEP review, progress meeting, parent conference
- {{team_audience}}: who attends and their role
- {{family_priorities}}: what the family has raised
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for them before drafting.
- Open with a short student snapshot in one paragraph.
- List strengths first, then needs, keeping each point to one line.
- Summarise progress on current goals and label each item as reported or measured.
- Describe classroom impact: participation, following instructions, peer interaction.
- Add three to five discussion points or proposed next steps for the team.
- Mark anything you inferred as an assumption for the team to confirm.
- Keep the whole summary to about one page.
Output format Markdown with short headings and bullet lists. Plain professional language, gloss any clinical term in a few words. No diagnosis codes, no invented scores or dates. Leave out history that does not affect the meeting agenda.
Guardrails
- Use only the information supplied. Do not invent scores, dates, eligibility categories or goal wording.
- Flag any assumption and note where a teacher, family member or district policy must confirm details before the meeting.
- State that this is a working draft for team discussion, not a formal IEP document.
Example Student J.M., grade 3, language comprehension and /r/ articulation goals, teacher reports difficulty following two-step directions during group work.