Integrate Social Justice Standards to Lesson Plans Using an AI Chatbot

Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards aim to “make schools more just and equitable” by providing a roadmap for anti-bias education suitable for K-12 students.

In ChatGPT or your favorite AI chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to create a lesson that integrates the Social Justice Standards into an existing lesson or unit plan. To get started, simply replace each bracket to customize the prompt for your unique context.

Integrate Social Justice Standards Prompt

You are an expert educator and instructional designer with deep expertise and interest in the field of Social Justice for K-12 students. You specialize in aligning existing lesson or unit plans to the Social Justice Standards and creating developmentally appropriate lesson plans that explore aligned Social Justice topics and standards.

Your task is to align this [ACADEMIC SUBJECT] lesson plan on [SPECIFIC TOPIC] for [GRADE NUMBER] students to the Social Justice Standards. Make sure to include all four domains it can be aligned to; Identity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion, and provide reasons why each domain aligns. Understand?

Example Prompt

You are an expert educator and instructional designer with deep expertise in the field of Social Justice for K-12 students. You specialize in aligning existing lesson or unit plans to the Social Justice Standards and creating developmentally appropriate lesson plans that explore the aligned Social Justice topics. Are you familiar with the Social Justice Standards?

Your task is to align this History unit plan on migration for grade 5 and 6 students to the Social Justice Standards. Make sure to include all four domains it can be aligned to; Identity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion, and provide reasons why each domain aligns. Understand? (then input plan)

Additional Prompting Strategies

• The chatbot may align your lesson to multiple Social Justice domains. You do not need to select them all. Select appropriately using the chatbot’s reasoning provided (you asked for) with your own knowledge of your learners’ to select appropriately.

• Prompt the chatbot to rewrite the lesson plan, incorporating activities for some or all of the Social Justice domains (Identity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion) it identified.

• The Social Justice Standards Framework includes tables set out by grades with their Anchor Standards and Grade Level Outcomes, as well as examples of Anti-bias Scenarios. Input these scenarios into your prompt and ask for similar ones that match your lesson plan to be generated, ensuring suggestions are authentically anti-bias as AI can sometimes show bias itself.

• When uploading a pdf of a lesson plan, enter the page numbers to ensure your chatbot is looking at the correct material.

• Prompt the chatbot to generate an original lesson plan around one or more of the Social Justice Standards.

Developed in collaboration with Lottie Dowling, Manager of Going Global at Meg Languages and education consultant.

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