Give Your Classroom Chatbot a Job Description

Nobody hires a staff member without a job description. Duties, boundaries, who they report to, what decisions they can't make alone. Yet schools deploy AI tools with no defined role at all — just a login and a hope.

Give every AI tool in your building a job description. It takes ten minutes and prevents most failures.

What is it hired to do? "Draft practice quiz questions from the chapter I upload" is a job. "Help with teaching" is not.

What is it forbidden from touching? Student names, grades, disciplinary records, anything identifiable. Write the boundaries down.

Who supervises it? A named human reviews its output before anything reaches students or parents. AI drafts; humans decide.

What happens when it fails? A wrong answer, a strange message to a parent, a confident hallucination in a study guide — who notices, who fixes it, who tells the family if it matters?

This sounds bureaucratic. It's actually liberating. Once the role is defined, teachers stop worrying about what the tool might do and start using it well for what it's for. Boundaries don't slow adoption — they make adoption safe enough to actually happen.

You wouldn't hand a new aide the keys and say "figure it out." Don't do it with software that talks to children either.

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