Learn Prompt Engineering

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Summary	A general prompt engineering resource for faculty
Author	Maintained by Matthijs van Mierlo
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Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

🖥️ Learning Resources

Google has extensive resources for prompt engineering found here: Prompt Engineering Resources (Google)

If you have questions about prompt engineering, start by browsing the link above.

Remember, for general prompt engineering:

1. Be specific
2. Be even more specific 😀
3. Give context in the prompt related to:
   • Resources the prompt should refer to (attachments, text blocks, images, etc.)
   • The type and length of output (table, lesson plan, CSV format)
   • The tone of the output (informal, scientific, analytic)
4. Iteratively revise your prompts!

More prompt engineering resources can be found here:

• Prompt Engineering for Educators Webinar and the Prompt Engineering Library
• Learn Prompting (from learnprompting.org)
• Google AI for Educators Self-Paced Course

As always, if you have further questions about prompt engineering for your work at Riverdale, feel free to submit a tech ticket by emailing support-ticket@riverdale.edu.

📝 Practical Prompts

Prompt engineering is an essential skill for educators using AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta AI, or other tools recommended by Riverdale. By crafting effective prompts, teachers can enhance lesson plans, differentiate instruction, develop rubrics, and frame feedback more precisely. Some example prompts are below.

General Prompts

Use Case	Prompt Template	Notes
General Activity Creation	Imagine you are ____________ . Design an activity designed for ___________ while covering a unit related to ___________ . The activity should be formatted with __________ and have ____________ types/number of questions. This activity should help measure the following learning outcomes/objectives ___________.	Fill in the blanks to make a starting prompt Iterate and change details as needed Remember, this is just a starting point!
Specific Learning Activity	User Prompt (for Activity): ____________ Generate a list of 10 related learning objectives or standards to this subject area, level, and activity goals. These items must be relevant to make the activity specific, relevant, and effective for the level, students and other criteria indicated. List this in the format, “MUST INCLUDE: <insert here>”. Now generate a list of 30 learning objectives NOT TO INCLUDE. List this in the format, “DON’T INCLUDE: <insert here>”. These objectives must help focus the activity to a reasonable scope. These learning objectives to exclude must also be related to the activity, specific, and effective for the level, students and other criteria indicated. Now make a prompt with ALL of this information in mind and format it as follows. Don’t create questions or actual content for the activity. Include the following information to create a detailed main prompt: <ACTIVITY> <INCLUDE STANDARDS> <EXCLUDE STANDARDS>	Run this prompt through AI Then use the result to run through AI another time This will now generate the actual activity!