Use AI 24 hours before your Zoom call: generate talking points, outline real-world examples, and create 5-7 questions to ask students. Spend 20 minutes prepping, then teach unplugged.
The Live Class Prep Advantage
Teaching live is like performing. A performer doesn’t improvise from scratch—they rehearse from a solid outline. That’s where AI helps. A day before your Zoom class, you use ChatGPT or Claude to outline your lesson, generate examples you might use, and create discussion questions. You’re not asking AI to teach for you; you’re asking it to give you options to choose from. Then, live, you pick the examples and questions that resonate in the moment with your students.
The magic is that having options makes you faster and more confident. You’re not pausing to think of an example—you’re choosing which pre-written example to use, or you’re improvising better because you already know what your outline covers.
The 24-Hour Prep Method
Day before your class, spend 20 minutes with Claude. Write a prompt like: “I’m teaching a Zoom class on [topic] to [describe your students]. Generate: 1) a 5-point outline I can reference, 2) three real-world examples I can tell, 3) seven discussion questions to ask students.” Claude will give you all of that in one response. You spend 15 minutes reading it, picking which pieces you’ll use, then jotting notes in a simple outline. You go live the next day with that one-page outline in front of you.
One educator I know does this: day before her Tuesday evening Zoom class on business strategy, she spends 15 minutes with Claude generating her lesson outline and discussion questions. She writes those onto a single note card. During class, she references that card but teaches from her experience and presence, not from AI notes. Her students don’t see AI; they see her, prepared and ready.
What This Means for Educators
As a teacher or group coach, your live Zoom presence is your core asset. Using AI to build a better outline doesn’t replace that—it enhances it. You show up more prepared, more confident, and more able to respond to your students in the moment.
Prep Smart, Teach Live
Use AI to outline and generate options 24 hours before your Zoom class. Don’t script your teaching—use AI to build your toolkit. One outline page, a few key examples, your best questions ready to go. That’s preparation that makes you freer, not more rigid, when you teach live.