TeacherHero gives a first-year teacher a full day's plan with the reasoning attached. Every lesson is six gradual-release sections, each one labelled with who is doing the work and what you should be doing while it happens — plus the packet, slides, and exit ticket already built for you.
In year one the problem is rarely a lack of ideas. It is that nobody has time to tell you what “I Do / We Do / You Do” means in practice at 9:40 on a Tuesday, why this activity goes before that one, or what you are supposed to be doing while thirty students work in groups.
The gradual-release spine every TeacherHero lesson is built on, and what each phase looks like in your room.
Post it, let them work silently, and read over shoulders. Do not teach or correct yet — you are collecting information.
You do the thinking out loud while students watch and annotate. They are not practising yet; this phase is entirely you.
You lead and the class answers together. You still hold the pen — call on students, but you write and correct in real time.
Students work in groups while you circulate and listen. Ask questions instead of answering them.
Students work alone and silently. You monitor and support only the students you flagged earlier in the lesson.
Independent answers in the last few minutes. Collect every one — that stack is your data for tomorrow.
Creating an account seeds a real course, unit, and week: day one is fully built with all six sections, a source, a support version, and a saved alignment check, and days two through five are planned but not yet generated so you can watch the coach work on a real day.
When a section is generated you see which instructional strategy was chosen and why. You can accept it, choose a different strategy yourself, or ask for a fresh aligned alternative — so the tool is teaching the reasoning, not hiding it.
A built-in tour walks the actual product — course, unit, week, lesson, and the coach — rather than a video of it. It only ever reads; it cannot change your curriculum while it runs.
Each of the six sections is labelled with a plain-language line describing who does the work — “you model it,” “students practise in groups,” “students work alone and silently” — plus a sentence on what you should be doing while it runs. The vocabulary is explained where it is used, not assumed.
A learning target and what students will produce by the end of the lesson. The final product is a pick-one list of common options, so it is a click rather than an essay. Generation is blocked until it is set, because every section is written backwards from that answer.
All of it. Every field is directly editable, you can highlight any sentence and ask for a clearer or rewritten version, and you can regenerate a single section without touching the other five. Version history keeps prior takes so an experiment is never destructive.
Yes. There is no paid tier, no trial clock, and no credit card. Sign in with Google or an email address and the example course is already there. Nothing you build is published anywhere unless you deliberately share one lesson to the public library.
Creating an account lands you in a fully built example course, unit, week, and lesson, so you can watch the coach work on a real day before planning your own.
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