Hire an AI history teacher with sources

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• Original/adapted source pairs and change log
• Timed inquiry lesson, diagnostic tasks and scoring guide

How it does the job well

• Base people decisions on job-related evidence, applied the same way to everyone.
• Write in plain, respectful language the person affected could read.
• Keep personal data to what the task needs, and handle it privately.
• Check local employment law and company policy before advising on hiring, pay or exits.

Mistakes it avoids

• Biased wording in job ads, reviews or interview questions.
• Plans with no owner, timing or way to check progress.
• Treating a template as legal advice.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: Teaching source-based history where text complexity blocks inquiry

• Source pairs. Each original beside its adapted version, with author and date kept.
• Change log. Every cut and change marked, with the author's perspective and any tensions between sources kept.
• Word bank. Definitions only, with no hints about what the source means.
• Timed inquiry lesson. Background, investigation, discussion and evidence-based writing, with teacher and student actions.
• Diagnostic tasks and scoring guide. Source-based tasks tied to your chosen skill, with expected answers that cite evidence and allow other defensible readings.
• Check table. PASS, FAIL or NOT RUN for each check, with missing inputs and the next person or input needed.

How the work is checked

• Criteria are written down before people are assessed.
• Every plan has milestones and owners.
• Sensitive steps are marked for human and legal review.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Adapt without answering for learners. Use originals, learner level and target skills. Preserve attribution, meaningful author language and evidence tensions. List each cut as a numbered item with its reason. Keep every author sentence you did not change in a separate column. Write the word bank as term plus definition only. Hand both versions and the change log to lesson planning.
• Build the inquiry lesson. Use source pairs and central question for background, investigation, discussion and evidence-based writing. Pass target thinking skills, source features and observation opportunities to assessment design.
• Check the thinking transfer. Create source-based diagnostics and scoring guide tied to the target skill. Use a supplied fresh source for transfer; otherwise flag familiarity limits. Allow verbal explanation where writing could hide understanding.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id teach-history-with-traceable-source-adaptations only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/teach-history-with-traceable-source-adaptations/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• SOURCES: attach primary texts with original wording, author, date, context and permissions.
• INQUIRY: give the central question as one sentence, and the tensions learners should investigate.
• LEARNERS: give age, reading level, prior knowledge, access needs and lesson length in minutes.
• ASSESSMENT_GOAL: name sourcing, close reading, context or corroboration as target.

Functions and deliverables

• Teach history with sources learners can question: Attach primary texts and a learning goal. Get transparent adaptations, a document lesson and a thinking assessment.
  • Original/adapted source pairs and change log
  • Timed inquiry lesson, diagnostic tasks and scoring guide
• History source text simplifier: Share a historical text, full source details and student needs. Get an easier reading version, a change record and definitions for difficult words kept.
  • An adapted source with marked cuts
  • A word bank of plain definitions
  • Notes on what was changed
  • A list of features kept for analysis
  Source: Gareth Manning.
• Primary source history lesson planner: Give it a topic and sources. Get a full lesson where learners investigate a historical question from documents.
  • A background activity that sets up the topic
  • A framed central question
  • Prompts for each document on author, date, purpose and claims
  • A discussion plan that compares the sources
  • Notes for learners who need more support
  • Points where you can check understanding
  Source: Gareth Manning.
• History thinking task and quiz designer: Name the history skills and student level. Get short source-based tasks, scoring guides and notes on what the answers can and cannot show.
  • A set of short historical thinking tasks
  • What strong, partial and weak answers look like
  • What each answer tells you to teach
  • Notes on fairness and validity
  Source: Gareth Manning.
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up

Tasks you can use it for

• Teaching source-based history where text complexity blocks inquiry

Limits to check before starting

• You teach a subject other than history, or want a lesson from an explanation to practice and a quiz: use Lesson and recall quiz planner.
• You have a finished lesson and want it checked first: use Lesson readiness reviewer.
• A learner needs access changes, not simpler text: use Lesson access and activity planner.
• You want recall questions on facts, not source-based thinking: use the Recall quiz writer.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the complete workflow or agent pack and unzip it.
• Give the complete folder to your AI. Start with START_HERE.txt, then provide the named inputs in the coordinator skill.
• Follow its checkpoints and check the evidence before using any output. Agent packs run one requested cycle; they do not create a schedule.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/teach-history-with-traceable-source-adaptations for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.