Future Teach — Twice-Weekly AI Drops for Coaches and Educators
📅 Monday & Thursday mornings | 🚀 Helping you teach smarter with AI
Sean Watson, AI Teaching Strategist
Thursday, August 14, 2025
📢 Big Story — OpenAI and Google Go Head-to-Head in Classrooms
Three words: 🎯 Personalization, ⚡ Efficiency, 🛡️ Safety
💡 Why it matters for teachers, coaches, and ESL pros:
• Teachers — Auto-create lesson overviews, quizzes, and flashcards in Workspace or Study Mode.
• ESL Coaches — Build guided grammar, vocab, and pronunciation sequences without extra prep time.
• All Educators — Reduce busywork and add interactive media instantly.
👉 Small play: Test Study Mode in one lesson this week.
👉 Big play: Integrate Gemini’s diagrams, quizzes, and overviews into your next unit.
💡 Did you know? Over 70% of educators using AI tools weekly say they’ve cut planning time by at least 30%.
📝 Teaching Smarter — You Can’t Scale Without Burning Out — Unless You Let AI Help
Growth feels great—until the late nights, endless admin, and creative fatigue creep in. Most solo educators and coaches hit a point where scaling means sacrificing quality or well-being.
AI changes that.
When you use it as a teaching co-pilot, it takes on repetitive, low-value work:
• Drafting lesson outlines and slides
• Turning notes into polished articles or handouts
• Creating practice activities and quizzes at scale
The goal isn’t to automate everything—it’s to delegate the right things so your business grows without you burning out.
Ask yourself: If AI handled my bottom 20% of tasks, how much better would my top 20% be?
AI Action Tips for Sustainable Growth
Batch content creation — Generate multiple lesson drafts or social posts at once, refine later.
Automate repetitive admin — Let AI handle email templates, scheduling, and follow-ups.
Repurpose your best work — Feed past lessons or webinars into AI to create new worksheets or tip sheets fast.
💡 Quick laugh: If your to-do list were a Netflix series, AI could at least binge the boring episodes for you.
🛠 Tool Spotlight — Gamma.app (AI-Powered Slides & Docs)
Gamma.app turns your text into beautiful, interactive slide decks, documents, websites and LinkedIn carousels—in minutes.
• Teachers — Transform lesson outlines into engaging decks with quizzes, media, and embeds.
• ESL Coaches — Add vocabulary highlights, pronunciation tips, and multimedia for flipped-classroom content.
• Educators — Build course materials, polished handouts, sales decks, or carousels for your audience—fast.
⚡ Quick Win: Paste your latest lesson notes into Gamma, apply a “Minimal” theme, and get a ready-to-teach deck or social-ready carousel in under 3 minutes.
🎯 More Tools Worth Your Time
For ESL Coaches: InsertLearning — Layer questions, discussions, and media directly onto any webpage for interactive lessons. Explore
💡 Quick Tip for Educators
Open Gamma.app and paste a lesson outline. Ask it to:
• Create a student-friendly slide deck
• Include 5 discussion prompts
• Add 3 visual diagrams for key concepts
🔍 From the AI & Education World
• Google gives college students free Gemini 2.5 Pro, NotebookLM, Veo 3, coding agent Jules, and 2 TB cloud storage. Details
• AFT + Microsoft + OpenAI + Anthropic launch a $23M AI training hub for 1.8M educators. Read
⚡ Featured Custom GPT — Precision Prompt Architect
Want perfectly structured prompts for lessons, quizzes, or coaching scripts? My Precision Prompt Architect GPT builds them with expert formatting and output control.
Try it here
💬 Your Turn
15-Second Challenge: Try creating one resource in Gamma.app or Coursebox using the tips above—see if it saves you at least 20 minutes.
What’s your biggest time-saver AI tip this month? Reply and I’ll share the best in the next issue.
📅 Book a 30-Minute AI Strategy Session
🤯 Using AI but not sure you’re doing it right?
If you’re overwhelmed by tools or feel like you’re only scratching the surface, book a private 30-minute AI strategy session with me.
We’ll cut through the noise and design a smarter, simpler way to integrate AI into your teaching or coaching workflow.
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Talk soon,
Sean Watson
AI Teaching Strategist | LinkedIn