As educators, we understand the importance of meeting the diverse needs of our students. However, creating differentiated materials for every lesson and assessment can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Taking the time to differentiate class materials is a valuable step toward making lessons accessible to all students. This is where AI comes in.
Pros:
Very easy to use. You can input a prompt for a specific topic, upload a link to a website or video, or drop in your own text, and the Diffit will create a series of resources you can use in your classroom. Diffit can take the same base content or topic and differentiate it for students at different reading levels.
Cons:
Diffit works according to grade level and not CEFR.
Pros:
Chat GPT allows you to be very specific by using prompt engineering
You can continue adding, adapting and improving what AI generates.
Chat GPT uses CEFR and grammar structures you specify.
Cons:
You must engineer your prompts.
You can run out of credits if you are using the free account.
Differentiated Reading levels: By providing different reading levels for reading passages, you will be able to make it accessible to all your students. You can either provide the passage if you have a resource you like and ask it to change the reading level, or ask it to generate the passage for you. This 250 word passage has been written at a C1 level. Adjust it to be 150 words and suitable for a B1 level, then a 100 word A2 level.
Differentiated cloze passages: Turn the previous passages into a cloze passages replacing key words with underscores that replace the missing words. Provide a word bank of the missing words.
Differentiated comprehension questions: For the following article, create differentiated questions at three different levels (easy, medium and hard). For the easy level, only include comprehension questions. For the medium and hard levels include a couple of critical thinking or open-ended questions. Each level needs to have 10 questions total. This resource will be used with grade 8th grade EFL studnents.
Vocabulary: In each ot the previous texts, which words should be front loaded according to the CEFR level? Create a vocabulary list for each passage and translate them into Hebrew. Put the words in a table with a column the English word and a colum for the Hebrew translation.
Visual Aids: Create a worksheet using the vocabulary including pictures and simple sentences.
Making sure all pupils have previous knowledge: Can you give me multiple resources to introduce the concept of recycling? The resources include, images, videos, websites, or infographics. Create a list of important vocablary in order to understand recycling.
Breaking down difficult concepts: How can you break down the concept of ‘inferring’ to 9th-grade EFL students? How can this idea be broken into manageable chunks?”
Make a connection to personal interests: One strategy that works for supporting students in understanding a new skill is making a connection to their personal experiences and interests, such as their background or hobbies. How would you teach a 7th grade school student who loves football about present simple?
Multiple level lesson plans: I am teaching my 7th grade EFL class about nouns. They students are on 3 different levels. Some are proficient readers with a B2 vocabulary, some are able to read sufficiently but their vocabulary is at A2 level others are weak readers with A1 level or below. Provide a lesson plan for each level teaching about nouns. Include the essential question "What is a noun and how do we use it in our daily language? " For the strong students challenge them to come up with their own list of nouns and ask higher order thinking skills.