Prompting Master Class

Prompting Master Class

This workshop-style course is designed for educators, administrators, and professionals aiming to unlock the full potential of AI tools through strategic and effective prompting. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday workflows, understanding how to communicate clearly with these tools is now an essential skill. This course demystifies prompting and builds the practical knowledge needed to co-create, explore, and iterate with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

This master class focuses on developing both a foundational understanding and hands-on skills in prompting, equipping you to better integrate AI into planning, writing, analyzing, and idea generation.

In this course, you will learn to:

Understand What Prompting Really Means – Build a clear conceptual understanding of prompting, not just as a technical skill, but as a creative interaction. Learn how to frame prompts to get the results you actually need—faster and with better accuracy.

Explore Real-World Use Cases – See prompting in action through guided demos focused on lesson planning, writing support, ideation, and reverse-engineering slide decks into structured lessons. These examples reveal both the strengths and limitations of generative AI.

Develop Effective Prompting Habits – Learn how to structure prompts with clarity, specificity, and context. Discover why vague prompts underdeliver and how thoughtful framing transforms AI into a powerful collaborator.

Use Prompting Iteratively – Understand that prompting isn’t a one-shot task but a conversation. You’ll gain strategies for refining outputs, asking follow-up questions, and adapting your approach when AI “hallucinates” or makes assumptions.

Protect Privacy and Practice Safe AI Use – Understand important privacy considerations when using AI in educational contexts. Learn how to avoid uploading personal or identifiable student information and how to work within legal and ethical boundaries (e.g., PIPEDA, FERPA).

Leverage Examples and Templates – Use examples of good prompts, lesson plan structures, and interactive techniques to build your own prompt library. You’ll be introduced to the SPARK Framework—a practical guide for making your prompts more powerful and targeted.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to confidently prompt AI tools to support your professional tasks—whether it’s writing, planning, teaching, analyzing, or problem-solving. You’ll walk away with a more intuitive, ethical, and strategic approach to working with AI—ready to apply what you’ve learned immediately in your context.