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Differentiated Instruction & Unit Planning

20 min

What you will learn

  • Use AI to design tiered activities for different readiness levels within the same learning objective
  • Create unit plans with coherent scope and sequence across multiple lessons
  • Generate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) accommodations across representation, engagement, and expression
  • Build assessment progressions that scaffold from formative to summative across a unit

Differentiation & Unit Planning: One Objective, Multiple Pathways

The biggest misconception about differentiated instruction is that it means creating separate lessons for each student group. In reality, differentiation means providing different pathways to the same learning objective based on student readiness, interest, or learning profile.

This is time-intensive when done manually. AI makes it practical.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework

UDL provides three principles for reaching all learners:

  1. 1.Multiple Means of Representation — Present information in different ways
  2. 2.Multiple Means of Engagement — Tap into different motivations and interests
  3. 3.Multiple Means of Action & Expression — Let students demonstrate learning in different ways

Framework: Tiered Activity Generator

Create tiered activities for the following lesson:

Learning objective: [SWBAT...]
Subject/Grade: [Subject, Grade]
Topic: [Specific content]

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What you'll learn:

  • Use AI to design tiered activities for different readiness levels within the same learning objective
  • Create unit plans with coherent scope and sequence across multiple lessons
  • Generate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) accommodations across representation, engagement, and expression