The Practice

Maximum 30 minutes · Send your transcript to Simone by Friday 6 November.

Talk through how you prepared one real project. Focus on creating its lesson materials. We want to understand what you actually did, including the detours and things you could not find time for.

1. Choose the project and set the boundaries

Use the last project you created lesson materials for. Say your role, subject and year group. Where did your preparation start, and when were the materials ready to use?

You could begin: “I teach [subject] to [year group]. The project was [project]. My preparation started when [trigger], and ended when [end point].”

2. Record yourself talking it through

Start a Teams or Zoom meeting and use recording and transcription if your school account supports them. Working alone is fine and usually easiest. If that feature is unavailable, use a transcription tool approved by your school.

Open the real files as you talk. Follow the project step by step:

• What did you do first, and what happened next?
• Which documents, examples, curriculum information or tools did you use?
• What did you need from colleagues? Where did you wait or redo work?
• Which decisions did you make? How did you judge whether the result was good?
• What took time, felt difficult or was enjoyable?
• What useful work did you want to do but leave out?

Tell the story as it happened. You can ramble. A detailed first version is enough; you do not need to write a polished report.

Keep the whole task within 30 minutes: allow about five minutes to choose the project and set up, twenty minutes to talk, and five minutes to check and share the transcript. We need the transcript, not the video.

3. Use the blank journey map

Slide 21 uses three rows: Action, Input and Missing Moves. Each column is a step in your preparation. Write the start and end points before filling in the steps.

Download the blank journey map (.txt) ↓

View the original canvas on slide 21.

The text file can be opened, copied or attached to your AI conversation. Add as many step columns as your workflow needs.

Start: ____________________
End: ____________________

To draft a map from your transcript, attach the blank template and ask AI:

Visualise my workflow from this transcript using the attached template. Keep the steps in the order I described. For each step, show Action, Input and Missing Moves. Keep my start and end points. Do not invent steps or missing work. Mark anything unclear as “needs checking”. Describe the current workflow before suggesting improvements.

Check the draft against what you said. Your transcript is the main thing to send; include the map if you made one within the time available.

4. Notice problems before choosing solutions

Use these questions from slides 22 and 23 to mark the map. You do not need to solve them yet.

• Flow: Where do delays, handoffs, duplication or rework appear?
• Quality: Where could decisions, information, feedback or learning checks improve?
• Load: Which repetitive steps take too much effort?
• Gaps: Which valuable actions never happen?

For one or two problems, note where they occur, what evidence you have and what improving them might change for pupils or teachers. Consider the effort needed and how to protect quality, teacher judgement, student autonomy and creativity. Shortlist problems rather than AI tools.

5. Send the transcript

Download or copy the transcript, check it and send it to Simone by Friday 6 November. Include your name, subject, year group and the project you described. A first version is enough.

Keep pupil names, identifiable pupil work and confidential school information out of the recording, transcript and any AI conversation. Use your school's approved tools and sharing route.

Next session: Monday 9 November, 12:30, Brussels time. Bring your laptop. We will use the maps to explore better ways of preparing projects.

Based on Session 2 slides 19–25, including the journey-map canvas on slide 21 and homework instructions on slide 24.