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From Planning to Feedback: How AI Tools Are Revolutionizing Teaching Workflows


Helloooo fellow teachers, I hope you are all doing amazing this summer! Today we are diving into AI tools and how they are affecting teaching. So I'm going to be honest with you guys, last quarter, I hit a wall. It was one of those weeks where everything was happening at once. Think, unit tests, a gazillion parent emails because report cards had just been released, IEP meetings, and about four half-finished lesson plans sitting open on my laptop at midnight. I remember staring at a rubric I’d written, trying to make feedback meaningful, and thinking: There has to be a better way to do this.

That’s when a colleague told me about a platform named TeachShare. I’d seen the name float around online, but hadn’t given it much thought. “Another AI tool,” I figured that would be kind of spammy and generate something very subpar. But I was wrong. TeachShare wasn’t just another ed-tech tool, it turned out to be the workflow system I didn’t know I needed. One that didn’t just offer lesson help or worksheets or feedback, but it offered a way to streamline the entire flow of teaching. Let me tell you how.


Step 1: Plan Smarter with the Creator Tool

Instead of starting from scratch every time I needed a new lesson or classroom assignment or looking through TPT or Pinterest, I now open TeachShare’s Creator tool. It’s really simple: I type in a topic (say, “Fiction vs. Non-Fiction”), choose my grade level and lesson phase, and (one of my favorite features)I select a Boost.

TeachShare’s Boosts are like built-in strategies. For example:

  • Scaffolding Boost gives sentence starters, visual aids, and vocabulary boxes

  • Inquiry Boost prompts higher-order thinking and student-driven exploration

  • Discourse Boost includes structured group talk prompts and discussion norms

  • Gradual Release Boost builds in "I do, we do, you do" scaffolding

  • Gamification Boost adds interactive formats and self-checking tasks


I used the Inquiry Boost last week for a unit on natural resources. It gave me:

  • A grade-level appropriate article

  • Critical thinking questions

  • A reflection prompt that tied to real-world application

  • A vocabulary section that saved me 2 hours of prep

It even included a Teacher Guide with learning objectives, timing, and differentiation strategies. I didn’t just get content, I got a fully supported lesson.

Step 2: Pull Resources Instantly from the Marketplace

PSA: Teachers get lazy sometimes too. And that last thing I want to do sometimes is build classroom resources from scratch, I want to grab something tried and true, something I know will work.

Enter TeachShare's Marketplace. It's is a peer-powered space where teachers share their best materials. It’s searchable by:

  • Subject

  • Grade

  • Resource type

  • Boosts used

  • Ratings and comments


Last Friday, I needed an exit ticket on author's purpose. I found one in under 2 minutes, previewed it, customized a couple of questions with their built-in AI chat-bot, and assigned it digitally to Google Classroom. No downloading weird files. No reformatting issues. And since these materials come from real classrooms, they actually work with real students.

Step 3: Generate Feedback and Grading with the Toolbox

So a Creator tool and a Marketplace. What's next?! Well, here’s where TeachShare sealed the deal for me: their Toolbox. I used to spend an hour per class writing feedback on writing samples. Now I use the Student Feedback Generator, and it produces clear, personalized comments that are:

  • Growth-oriented

  • Standards-aligned

  • Easy to tweak in my own voice

They also have:


It’s not about cutting corners when it comes to using AI, it’s about cutting down the time I spend formatting and duplicating what I’ve already thought through. I still review and revise everything before I hand it back. But now? I do it in a fraction of the time.

Real Talk: The Workflow Difference

Here’s a side-by-side of my old workflow vs. what I do now with TeachShare:

Task

Before TeachShare

With TeachShare

Lesson Planning

45–60 minutes per lesson

~10–15 minutes

Finding quality worksheets

3 tabs, 45 minutes searching

2 minutes in Marketplace

Differentiating content

Manual rewriting

One-click Boosts + AI edits

Writing feedback

1+ hour per class

~20 minutes

Creating rubrics

From scratch in Google Docs

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The time saved isn’t just about convenience, it’s given me time back to teach better because I'm well rested AND dig deeper into topics that my students are interested in within our unit.


Final Thoughts: More Than a Tool, It’s a Teaching System

Most AI tools out there feel like add-ons. They do one thing: generate a question set, or summarize a text, or automate grading. But TeachShare doesn’t just help with one part of the teacher workflow, it helps with the whole flow. From ideation to instruction to assessment, it walks with you. It adapts. It supports. And most importantly, it saves your energy for what matters most: your students. So if you’ve ever sat staring at your screen at 11 p.m. wondering how you’re going to get it all done…

 
 
 

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