AI as Co-Teacher: Planning, Prompting, and Powering Up Instruction
Facilitator: Dr. Bryan Setser | Wayfinder
The Rewarding Educator Achievement & Performance Educator Summit 2025
October 18, 2025
https://ai-co-teacher-shwjvy1.gamma.site
Bryan Setser
What You'll Gain
Session Goals
Participants will:
Understand the CARE framework for ethical, intentional AI use.
Practice co-planning and prompting with AI to design differentiated instruction.
Explore how AI can deepen feedback and engagement while sustaining teacher agency.
Leave with a Curated Prompt Bank, AI-Ready Classroom Roadmap, and Wayfinder Substack access.
The CARE Framework
  • C – Context: Provides the necessary background or scenario for the AI.
  • A – Action: Specifies the exact task the AI should perform.
  • R – Result: Describes the desired outcome or goal of the AI's action
  • E – Example: Gives a concrete example or case study to illustrate the desired output format and style.
Introduction: Our Work as Wayfinders
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A Wayfinder Welcome
  • Quick intro & purpose: AI isn't replacing teachers , it's co-teaching with us.
  • Have participants open laptops or phones and try a CARE PROMPT
  • Example prompts:
  • Give me 3 quick, inclusive routines to refocus a restless middle school class, build community, not control in under a minute.
  • Show me fast, equitable ways for students to coach and question each other during group work so I’m not the only resource.
  • Suggest 2 AI-supported ways a student with dysgraphia can express ideas and meet standards—no shortcuts, full inclusion.
  • Turn and Table Talk. What works in the output? What's missing? What's next?
Co-Planning with AI
  • Divide into small groups (by grade or subject).
  • Each group picks a standard or lesson they're planning soon.
  • Prompt sequence (shown on screen):
  1. At as a co-teacher. My objective is ___
  1. Differentiate this lesson for struggling and advanced learners.
  1. Add an inquiry-based challenge question and an exit ticket.
  • Groups refine AI responses using CARE lens and share top takeaways.
  • Debrief: How did AI amplify or distract from your instructional purpose?
  • How satisfied are you with the output?
  • Could you use a podcast from Notebook LM to explain it to a colleague?

07:48

YouTube

Humanity + AI The Future of Education A NotebookLM Podcast

Join us for a recap of the top insights and key takeaways from the Setser Group's September Wayfinder newsletters! This audio overview explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the educational landscape, from the classroom to administrative offices. We'll cover: ● Real-world examples of AI implementation in schools, featuring case studies from Research Triangle High School and Appalachian State University. ● Practical strategies for integrating AI into lesson planning, profession

AI-Enhanced Feedback
Run AI Scenario
Paste Student Paragraph
AI Feedback: Mechanics, Meaning, Mastery
Group Reflection
Usable AI Feedback?
Humanize AI Response?
Cite AI Collaboration?
CARE: Ethical AI Citation
APA AI Citation Guidance
AI-Ready Classroom Roadmap: October - December 2025
Start Small
One AI partner, one prompt routine, one co-teaching move.
Scale Intentionally
Build weekly reflection check-ins (CARE lens).
Sustain Ethically
Engage students as prompt-writers, feedback editors, and AI ethicists.
Discuss semester-by-semester strategies (elementary, middle, high school) in your PLCS, Lunch and Learns, Email or Slack Threads, Google Docs, or Share Prompt Bank
🌱 10 CARE Prompts to Power Student Growth
  1. Goal Setting & Reflection
Help me set a short-term learning goal and reflect on one strength and one growth area from this week’s class.
  1. Writing Feedback Loop
Give me feedback on this paragraph’s clarity and tone, then suggest one edit I can make myself to improve it.
  1. Peer Collaboration
“Using CARE, design a quick activity where my classmates and I give each other feedback that’s kind, specific, and helpful.
  1. Critical Thinking
Give me three deeper questions I can ask about this topic that go beyond facts and connect to real-world issues.
  1. AI Transparency & Integrity
Help me write a note at the end of my essay that explains what parts I wrote myself and how AI supported my revisions.
  1. Vocabulary Growth
Teach me five new words related to our unit, show them in context, and help me make a creative sentence for each.
  1. Project Planning
Help me break my project into clear steps with checkpoints so I stay on track and know when to ask for help.
  1. Social-Emotional Check-In
Help me describe how I’m feeling about learning today and one action I can take to stay motivated.
  1. Research Literacy
Show me how to verify a fact I found online, walk me through how to check its source, accuracy, and bias.
  1. Student-Led Reflection & Growth
Help me summarize what I learned this week, how it connects to my goals, and one way I can teach it to someone else.
AI doesn't replace your humanity, it scales it - Bryan Setser