Examples of ways to differentiate instruction

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Educational Partners International - Educational Partners International
Grades
K to 12tag(s): differentiation (92), Formative Assessment (77)
In the Classroom
Do Nows can be used in the classroom to place students into differentiated groups and monitor their progress.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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How to Use Chatbot to Create Engaging Do Now Activities - Edutopia
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Use AI to create quick, challenging warm-up questions related to the day's lesson. Develop differentiated "Do Now" tasks using AI to cater to diverse student needs. For example, an AI tool can create varying levels of comprehension questions for a short text, ensuring all students are appropriately challenged. Encourage students to analyze or critique AI-generated prompts. For instance, ask them to refine or improve an AI-created question, linking it more directly to the lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ereading Worksheets - Donald Morton
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3 to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): grammar (134), reading comprehension (150), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Teachers can use the site's flexible worksheets to differentiate instruction based on individual student needs. The site offers various grammar worksheets so teachers can assign targeted grammar exercises to extend students' language skills. They can also use the comprehension worksheets to dive deeper into literary analysis.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Game-Based Learning for Multilingual Students - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): game based learning (186), gamification (80), multilingual (70)
In the Classroom
Find new tools, strategies, and games for your multilingual students. Use these tools to differentiate and reach all students at the various levels. Challenge your students to create their games to review content or for acceleration options. Share this list on your class website for families to use at home. This list includes resources for elementary and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Game-Based Learning for Littles - TeachersFirst
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K to 4tag(s): critical thinking (121), game based learning (186), gamification (80), preK (267)
In the Classroom
Share these tools on your class website or blog for students to use both in and out of the classroom. Use these tools to differentiate and reach all students at the various levels. Challenge your students to create their own games to review content or acceleration options.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI Planet - AI Planet
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), differentiation (92), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to tailor lesson plans with interactive activities that captivate student interest, such as projects, discussions, or group tasks based on their interests. It can also be helpful to create differentiated lessons or advanced materials for students ready to deepen their understanding, promoting independent study and critical thinking skills. Use this tool to refresh your lessons with new and engaging ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI for Lesson Planning - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), differentiation (92)
In the Classroom
Use this collection to save time doing many tasks as you plan your lessons from start to finish. Bookmark this site to find new ways to deliver and differentiate content and lower the time required in planning using the power of AI!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI for Creating Projects - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), creating media (10), Project Based Learning (26)
In the Classroom
AI is ever-changing, and the tools evolve and change every day. Use the tools in this collection to stay informed and learn about new tools that you (and your students) can use to create projects. AI creation tools save you time and can allow you to personalize the projects and differentiate for all needs. Share this collection with colleagues looking for ways to use AI to create projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Groovelit - Harvard Innovation Labs
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), creative writing (123), persuasive writing (58), vocabulary development (93), writing (324)
In the Classroom
Be sure to visit Groovelit's blog to find many ideas for classroom use, such as bell ringers, quick writes, and creative writing prompts. In addition, the blog shares several certificate templates to recognize student achievements, such as inclusion in the "Spicy Vocabulary Word Hall of Fame" and "Greek Roots Mastery Tracker." Use these ideas and others to create your certificates for students to share using the certificate creator found at Tools for Educators, reviewed here. Groovelit can also engage reluctant writers by generating short yet interesting prompts that reward students with points through short writing activities. Differentiate writing activities as needed based on students' needs. For example, quickly generate writing prompts for different topics of interest for your students or assign activities based on students' writing or vocabulary skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeacherServer AI Tools - TeacherServer
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), professional development (405), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save TeacherServer as a helpful tool for increasing productivity and efficiency in any classroom. Generate and edit lesson plans, use other tools to differentiate learning for students with different ability levels or abilities, or provide choices for students to share their learning. Include ideas from the parent section to share ideas for supporting students at home, write professional emails, and provide customized strategies for many different student needs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poe - Poe.com
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), chat (41), DAT device agnostic tool (146)
In the Classroom
Using AI generators helps save time and increase productivity; Poe saves even more time by making it easy to compare output from several AI generators in one place. Use this resource to create quizzes, rubrics, lesson plans, and more. Many of the included resources offer the option to add files and increase productivity further by attaching a worksheet and asking it to modify the content to differentiate learning or to suggest ideas for presenting the content in a different format. Be sure to ask for information as precisely as possible by including grade-level information, the subject you teach, content standards and teaching objectives, and options for differentiating instruction. Math teachers can ask chatbots to explain the content differently or ask for ideas on applying math topics to everyday life. In social studies or science, ask to generate a vocabulary list or create a story based on your lessons incorporating essential vocabulary terms. ELA teachers might use these tools to get suggestions for interventions to support struggling readers or to find additional resources to support current lessons. Use the image generators to produce images for creative writing activities, to develop descriptive writing skills, or to include in multimedia presentations. Always verify any information provided by any AI tool before using it. These tools constantly evolve, and many features regularly change (or upgrade).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Education - Anti-Defamation League
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K to 12tag(s): bias (27), bullying (48), civil rights (200), cross cultural understanding (169), cyberbullying (40), difficult conversations (60), disabilities (30), holocaust (42), racism (79), religions (84), social and emotional learning (99), women (145)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site throughout the year as a resource for lessons and learning resources relating to many social and emotional learning topics. Include ideas and resources to build more comprehensive learning experiences with your current activities. Differentiate activities based upon student abilities and interests using AI tools such as Magic School, reviewed here. For example, Magic School can generate Choice Board activities or Project-Based Learning activities to extend learning based on any of the lesson plans shared by ADL Education.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Khanmigo - Khan Academy
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), assessment (152), differentiation (92), Formative Assessment (77), rubrics (36), Special Needs (56), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these AI-powered resources to save time and increase productivity. For example, use the Exit Ticket creator to design end-of-lesson assessments to determine student understanding or the Make it Relevant! generator to design lessons that engage learners based on their interests. Differentiate learning by adjusting text levels to match students' abilities or increase comprehension by chunking text into manageable sections.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachingLab.ai - Teaching Lab Coherence Innovation Studio
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), assessment (152), differentiation (92), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Use TeachingLab.ai to increase productivity and creativity with classroom content. Use the provided tools to generate lesson plans, modify activities to differentiate learning, and create quick formative assessments. Be sure to include prompts as specific as possible to receive the best results, then use the chat bar to provide additional input to for the desired results. Use TeachingLab.ai to generate ideas for introducing new vocabulary to students or as a tool to support multilingual learners in your classroom. After generating vocabulary lists and content ideas, use the information to create interactive games and activities using Wordwall, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Gibbly - Gibbly
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), gamification (80), preK (267), quizzes (89), Teacher Utilities (174)
In the Classroom
Use Gibbly to generate lessons and formative assessments that engage students in learning. Assign solo quizzes for students to review classroom information and easily differentiate learning by adjusting the reading level and content of the questions. Host a live quiz before starting a new unit to guide lesson planning based on students' prior knowledge. Use the lesson generator to build lessons, then share the link with students to review after your presentation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Snorkl - Snorkl
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), feedback (12), Teacher Utilities (174), Whiteboard (11)
In the Classroom
Use Snorkl to enhance student learning by providing prompts that encourage students to develop thinking and reasoning skills while sharing their understanding of the topic. Encourage students to use the included whiteboard to provide written responses and drawings in addition to the recorded audio explanations. Differentiate learning for students by creating questions based on students' understanding of the topic. Encourage students to take advantage of the AI feedback provided to rerecord responses that provide additional information that shows a deeper knowledge of the topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pi, Your Personal AI - Infelction AI
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), chat (41), tutorials (53)
In the Classroom
Pi's terms of service state that it is not for children under 18, so this chat tool should only be used by adults. Because Pi provides conversation ideas, it is an excellent introductory resource for learning to use AI chat generator tools. For example, use the conversation starters to discover tips to share with your students for learning a new language, find jokes for your classroom, or look for tips on focusing. Start new conversations (known as threads) to ask for ideas that support your curriculum and teaching style. An example might be, "Give me ideas for projects for my 4th-grade students to do during a unit on plants using Universal Design Learning frameworks." After viewing the response, ask additional questions to find resources, further ideas, or ways to differentiate learning for different groups of students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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invideo AI - invideo AI
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K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), tutorials (53), video (263)
In the Classroom
Create videos for many classroom purposes by writing prompts clearly stating your needs. For example, include the topic, age or grade of students, type of voice (male or female) if desired, and specific vocabulary or information to include. Use invideo AI to differentiate content for your students' varying needs by creating videos on similar topics but with different levels of vocabulary and information. Embed your videos into multimedia tools such as Sway, reviewed here and NearPod, reviewed here to include additional elements of any lesson. Share a link to your video with students to view as a schema activator before a lesson or as a flipped learning activity before introducing new content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kentucky Text Sets - Daviess County Public Schools
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K to 12tag(s): animals (295), anne frank (10), arctic (40), authors (105), black history (130), civil rights (200), climate (83), climate change (93), colonial america (93), communities (37), cross cultural understanding (169), cultures (166), earth (184), earth day (60), energy (131), explorers (65), figurative language (16), fossils (40), great depression (29), greeks (31), heart (27), heroes (24), holocaust (42), immigration (68), inventors and inventions (77), ireland (11), national parks (29), native americans (96), novels (32), nutrition (135), oceans (148), poetry (194), professional development (405), senses (20), social and emotional learning (99), solar energy (34), world war 2 (160)
In the Classroom
This site is worthy of inclusion in virtually all teachers' toolboxes. Use the text sets to support literature instruction using the resources provided. Find materials to differentiate learning for all students by browsing through the different grade-level offerings to find materials that meet the needs of students who need additional support and resources that challenge gifted learners. Learn more about multimedia text sets by watching the archive of OK2Ask: Using Multimedia Text Sets for Student Knowledge Construction,reviewed here. As you and your peers build text sets, share your materials on a website using Google Sites, reviewed here using Kentucky Text Sites as a model of what to include.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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EduEase - EduEase
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4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (161), assessment (152), Formative Assessment (77), quiz (65), quizzes (89)
In the Classroom
Use EduEase to create quizzes as a formative assessment to guide instruction quickly. For example, set-up a short quiz based on your end-of-unit assessment to determine your student's current understanding of the material, focus on content that needs to be learned, and differentiate instruction as needed. Share EduEase with students to review study materials and prepare for tests. EduEase currently only accepts PDF documents; use Tiny Wow, reviewed here to easily convert images, PowerPoints, Word documents, and more to PDF documents.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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