CTE CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSION

AI for the CTE Educator

Practical, classroom-ready AI that gives you your day back — with the tools and prompts to start Monday.

Agriculture

Business

Family & Consumer Science

Audio / Video

+ every pathway

SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE

We talk a lot about AI for students. This session is about you.

Educators lose 10–15 hours a week to non-instructional work. Regular AI users report getting ~6 hours of that back. That's the whole game today.

Lesson planning

Differentiation

Grading & quizzes

Sub plans

Emails & paperwork

…and everything else

THE ONE SHIFT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

OLD QUESTION

"How do I stop students from using AI?"

NEW QUESTION

"How do I use AI to leave work at 4:00?"

AI is not a threat. It's the assistant you never got in your budget. You keep the judgment; you hand off the busywork.

THE ONE SKILL THAT UPGRADES EVERY TOOL

Prompting that fits on a sticky note: R-T-C-F

Role

Who should it be? "You are an FCS teacher…"

Task

What do you want? "…write a rubric…"

Context

Details that matter: grade, standard, constraints.

Format

How to return it: a table, 5 items, <200 words.

WEAK

"make a rubric"

STRONG

"You are a Culinary teacher. Write a 4-level rubric for a knife-skills practical, aligned to ServSafe, as a table."

WHERE WE'RE HEADED

What we'll put to work today

01

Lesson planning

02

Instant differentiation

03

Interactive presentations

04

Interactive Case Study

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Quizzes → Canvas

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Sub plans in minutes

07

Admin & email

★

Claude for Teachers — free

�Resources

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01 · LESSON PLANNING

From blank page to full lesson in minutes

Workflow: Define → Set parameters → Refine. The more context you give, the less you rewrite.

COPY-PASTE PROMPT · AGRICULTURE

"You are an Ag Science teacher. Build an 85-minute lesson on livestock nutrition & ration balancing for a mixed 10th–12th class. Include a bell-ringer, hands-on lab using feed samples, an exit ticket, and a tie-in to the Livestock Evaluation CDE. Align to my state Ag standards and flag any safety notes."

Then refine: "Add a version for first-year students."

Best for open-ended planning

Claude · ChatGPT ·Diffit

Teacher-built templates

MagicSchool AI · Brisk Teaching

Also works for

Business (a mock-interview unit) · FCS (a food-safety module) · A/V (a three-point lighting lab)

02 · INSTANT DIFFERENTIATION

One assignment, every learner

Start with material you already have. AI produces SPED, ELL, and advanced versions — same content, right level for each student.

Diffit

Paste any text or topic → leveled reading passages, vocabulary support, and comprehension questions across your whole range at once.

MagicSchool AI

Turns an existing assignment into an IEP-accommodated, ELL-supported, or advanced-extension version in a couple of clicks.

Claude & ChatGPT

"Rewrite this at three reading levels and add sentence starters for my ELL students." Fully open-ended.

FCS example: One "Reading a Nutrition Label" article → a scaffolded version for SPED, a glossary-supported version for ELL, and a "design a balanced meal for a client" extension for advanced students.

04 · MULTIMEDIA & IMAGE GENERATION

Custom visuals, diagrams & storyboards on demand

Diagrams, images, slide outlines, and "what-if" scenarios — generated to fit your pathway, not a stock library.

Images & diagrams

ChatGPT / DALL·E · Gemini · Adobe Firefly · Ideogram

Glint AI NEW

Turn a recipe or any process into a labeled, step-by-step visual aid.

Classroom graphics

Canva Magic Media — handouts & posters

Slides from an outline

Gamma — topic → full deck

Audio/Video: "Storyboard a 60-second PSA on shop safety with a shot list and camera angles."

FCS · Glint AI: "Turn my three-bean chili recipe into a step-by-step illustrated visual aid students can follow at their station."

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Before → After: the same resource, transformed

One pass through an AI tool: a plain worksheet becomes leveled for every learner — or a live, interactive check.

BEFORE — BUILT BY HAND

One version · one reading level · no interactivity

→

AFTER — WITH AN AI TOOL (Glint)

SPED

ELL

Advanced

Three reading levels · seconds, not hours

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Before → After: the same resource, transformed

One pass through an AI tool: a plain worksheet becomes leveled for every learner — or a live, interactive check.

BEFORE — BUILT BY HAND

Prompt on Claude for Teachers:

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Act as an experienced High School Culinary Arts and Career & Technical Education (CTE) teacher. Create a highly engaging, classroom-tested Escape Room activity for a 9th–10th grade Culinary Arts class based on the first three sections of the ServSafe workbook.

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Requirements:

- Class length: 85 minutes

- Student grade level: 9th–10th grade

- Group size: Teams of 3–5 students

- Objective: Review and reinforce key concepts from the first three ServSafe sections while promoting collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

- Difficulty level: Moderate; challenging enough to require teamwork but achievable within one class period.

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One version · one reading level · no interactivity

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AFTER — WITH AN AI TOOL (Claude for Teachers)

SPED

ELL

Advanced

Three reading levels · seconds, not hours

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Before → After: the same resource, transformed

One pass through an AI tool: a plain worksheet becomes leveled for every learner — or a live, interactive check.

BEFORE — BUILT BY HAND

Prompt on ChatGPT for Teachers:

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Act as an experienced High School Culinary Arts and Career & Technical Education (CTE) teacher. Create a highly engaging, classroom-tested 10 question multiple choice quiz over this recipe, make it canvas ready. make sure it is QTI 1.2 zip format with different questions and answers for each question.

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Attach Chocolate Mousse Recipe or copy and paste it with the question.

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Watch the Short Video HERE for the how to import the quiz into Canvas.

One version · one reading level · no interactivity

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AFTER — WITH AN AI TOOL (Claude for Teachers)

SPED

ELL

Advanced

Three reading levels · seconds, not hours

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Before → After: the same resource, transformed

One pass through an AI tool: a plain worksheet becomes leveled for every learner — or a live, interactive check.

BEFORE — BUILT BY HAND

Prompt on ChatGPT for Teachers:

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Act as an experienced High School Culinary Arts and Career & Technical Education (CTE) teacher. Create a highly engaging, classroom-tested sub plans over this assignment.

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Attach assignment or just type in your unit of content. In this example I typed this prompt in immediately following the Escape room prompt so Claude knew what assignment I was talking about.

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One version · one reading level · no interactivity

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SEE THE DIFFERENCE

After: the same resource, transformed

One version · one reading level · no interactivity

AFTER — WITH AN AI TOOL (Claude for Teachers)

07 · ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS & EMAIL

Never write the first draft again

Give it the bullet points and the tone. You edit and send — in a fraction of the time.

✉ Parent & guardian communication

🤝 Advisory board & industry-partner notes

🏆 CTSO / DECA / FFA letters & fundraising

📄 Recommendation letters & syllabi

PROMPT · BUSINESS / DECA

"Draft a warm, professional thank-you email to our DECA advisory board after their mock-interview day, and a short paragraph inviting them to sponsor spring competition travel. Keep it under 200 words, confident but not pushy."

⚠ Keep student names out of prompts — use initials or placeholders. Always read before you send.

03 · INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS

Turn the deck you already built into a live lesson

ClassPoint AI — a free add-in that installs right into PowerPoint. No rebuilding required. Click HERE to watch a short Video on how to use it.

How it works in class

Highlight a slide → click Generate → choose from AI-suggested questions built on that slide → drop the button in and present. Responses roll in live.

Question types

Multiple choice & fill-in-the-blank · word clouds & short answer · live leaderboard & star rewards.

WHY IT MATTERS

Every fact is one AI summary away. What students lack is a reason to engage — interactivity gives them one, without you rebuilding a single deck.

Business example: A static "4 Ps of Marketing" slide becomes a live poll + word cloud in 30 seconds.

06 · SUB PLANS IN MINUTES

A ready-to-hand-off day — from what you already have

Built around your materials, not a generic filler day.

1

Feed it what you have

Upload your slides, a reading, or a video link — the plan is built on your existing materials.

2

Add the day's shape

Subject, grade, period length, plus accommodations, tech notes, and classroom norms.

3

Get a printable plan

Warm-up, activity, closure, emergency backup task, and space for the sub's notes.

Tools to try: MagicSchool AI's Sub Plan Generator · SubPlan.ai · Brisk Teaching (turns a doc, PDF, or video into an on-the-spot activity).

★ NEW — FEATURED RESOURCE

Claude for Teachers

Anthropic now gives verified U.S. K-12 educators the full premium version of Claude — free. The same paid platform enterprises use, built around a teacher's week.

FREE — SIGN UP BY

June 30, 2027

…for a full year of premium access.

Verify as an educator at claude.com/solutions/teachers . For individual K-12 teachers in the US; a schools-and-districts offering is coming soon.

CLAUDE FOR TEACHERS · WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

More than a chatbot with a free coupon

Grounded in real standards

Learning Commons gives Claude academic standards across all 50 states — and the competencies beneath each one — so plans come out scaffolded and aligned.

Connects to your tools

Works with Diffit, MagicSchool, Brisk Teaching, Canva Education and more — a coordinating layer, not one more login.

Does the work in the background

Hand off a task and it keeps going — it can even review exit tickets at 4pm daily and adapt tomorrow's plan.

Built for student privacy

Training is off for verified teacher accounts. FERPA-aligned data terms, co-developed with the American Federation of Teachers.

📸 BOOKMARK THIS SLIDE

Today's toolkit, at a glance

Every tool here has a usable free tier.

Lesson planning

Claude · ChatGPT · MagicSchool · Brisk

Differentiation

Diffit · MagicSchool AI

Interactive presentations

ClassPoint AI (PowerPoint add-in)

Multimedia & images

DALL·E · Firefly · Canva · Gamma · Glint

Quizzes → Canvas

Claude · Conker CoPilot · ChatGPT

Sub plans

MagicSchool · SubPlan.ai · Brisk

★ Claude for Teachers

Free for verified U.S. K-12 teachers — sign up by June 30, 2027 · claude.com/solutions/teachers

YOUR NEXT STEP — EXIT TICKET

Pick ONE task you hate doing this week — and let AI draft it.

Today

Sign up for Claude for Teachers & install ClassPoint.

This week

Run one assignment through Diffit for your widest-range class.

Next absence

Build your sub plan with AI — compare the time.

Next quiz

Generate it and export straight to Canvas.

Your time is valuable. Your energy belongs with your students — not behind a keyboard.

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