Hire an AI English learner critical-thinking task designer

Everything it can hand back

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

• A task with its questions and what a strong answer shows
• A list of the words and sentences likely to block learners of English
• A version of the task with language help added and the thinking left as hard
• A plan for taking the help away as students grow in confidence

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: Your class includes students still learning English and your thinking tasks lose them.

• The Task. Student instructions, the material to weigh and the guiding questions for your thinking skill.
• Critical vs. Surface Response Guide. What a strong answer looks like next to a shallow one, with examples of each.
• Teacher Follow-Up Prompts. Questions to ask live that push students to think further.
• Language Demand Profile. The hard words, grammar and sentence types in the task, sorted by kind.
• Scaffold Recommendations. A support for each kind of block, such as sentence starters, word banks or visuals.
• Modified Task. The same task with word banks, sentence starters and chunked steps added.

How the work is checked

• The task asks for the thinking skill named, not recall of facts.
• Step 2 names specific words and sentence types, and keeps language blocks apart from thinking demands.
• Every thinking question from step 1 is still in the supported task and is not easier.
• Help comes in layers, not one fixed set.
• 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

• Write the task. Picks material for students to weigh, writes the task and its questions, and says what a strong answer shows. It hands the task to the language check.
• Check the language demand. Reads the task for hard words and sentence types and separates language blocks from thinking demands. It hands the list of blocks to the next step.
• Add language help. Adds word banks, sentence starters or visuals where the check found blocks. It keeps every thinking question as hard and adds a plan to remove the help.

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 write-a-thinking-task-english-learners-can-do 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/write-a-thinking-task-english-learners-can-do/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

• The subject and topic
• The thinking skill, such as weighing evidence, spotting bias or testing an argument
• The year or age group
• Your learners' English levels, such as New to English or Developing (optional, say "mixed" if you are not sure)
• A text students will read (optional)
• Time for the task (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• A real text or source you plan to use. The language check is sharpest on the actual words students will meet.
• Subject words you plan to teach first. The check leaves them out of the blocks.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Any of them can read the pack and write the three steps. Nothing needs code or web search.

Functions and deliverables

• English learner critical-thinking task designer: Share the subject, thinking goal and learner level. Get a challenging task, a language-demand check and a version with targeted language help.
  • A task with its questions and what a strong answer shows
  • A list of the words and sentences likely to block learners of English
  • A version of the task with language help added and the thinking left as hard
  • A plan for taking the help away as students grow in confidence
• Critical thinking task writer: Turn a topic, student level, and thinking skill into a task with example answers.
  • The student task
  • Strong versus surface answer guide
  • Teacher follow-up prompts
  • Assessment indicators
  Source: Gareth Manning.
• Student task language reviewer: Check your task for hard language. Paste it in and see which words and sentences may block students learning English, plus supports.
  • A list of word and sentence barriers
  • A language demand rating
  • Suggested supports for each barrier
  • Words to pre-teach
  Source: Gareth Manning.
• English learner task support planner: Add language support to a classroom task while keeping its reasoning goal. Get the adapted task, a challenge check and a plan to reduce support.
  • A scaffolded version of your task
  • Word banks, sentence starters and chunked steps where they fit
  • A check that the thinking is still as hard
  • A list of the supports used
  • A plan to remove the supports over time
  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

• Your class includes students still learning English and your thinking tasks lose them.
• You want a task that asks students to weigh evidence or spot bias, with one version for everyone.
• You are tempted to cut the hard thinking to make a task readable.
• A colleague who teaches English as an additional language asks what the language demand of your task is.

Limits to check before starting

• Your lesson only needs recall of facts, such as dates or definitions. Write simple questions yourself.
• You already have a task and only want its hard language found. Use the Student task language reviewer.
• You already know the language blocks and only want help added. Use the English learner task support planner.
• You need a whole lesson, not one task. Use the Lesson and recall quiz planner workflow.

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 handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
• Give the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Name the subject, the thinking skill and the year group. Add your learners' English levels if you know them.
• Read the task from step one first and change it to fit your class. The language steps then work on your version.
• Try the supported version with one small group, then change the help that did not land.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/write-a-thinking-task-english-learners-can-do 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.