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The age of AI and how that is helping me as a teacher.

At the bottom, same text, but revised by AI. Which do you prefer? There is no way to escape it. AI is here and it is changing the way we do things. It's changing how our brain words and it will make a huge impact in our lives. It is your choice to decide if the change is going to be beneficial or harmful. I chose it to be beneficial and I will tell you how. It's with no doubt, that AI is helping teachers all over the world, helping them save time when planning their lessons, when they need to differentiate a text to suit the level of their learners, designing worksheet and even analyzing data and writing reports. As a teacher, I use AI everyday to do simple tasks to me, as revising an email response and sometimes drafting it. I give Copilot the standards, skills, content and unit overview, and I ask it to outline a 20 lesson unit following a specific approach that we follow in our school. I then revise this outline and ask it to expand each lesson into the 3 steps structure we ...

Differentiation Done Wrong!

Hey there, I have asked teachers about their struggle when planning lessons and most of them responded that differentiation is what takes more of their planning time. So I decided to take a refresher course on differentiation, and it's already sparking some intriguing questions. I'd love to dive into them with you! The facilitator emphasizes that students aren't just averages; they're individuals with unique needs. Do you agree? How do you incorporate this idea into your planning and teaching? Next, let's discuss the concept of maintaining high expectations. The facilitator suggests that by setting high expectations for all students and allowing them to take different paths to reach them, we're providing quality opportunities for learning. Have you encountered this approach in your teaching experience? Lastly, the facilitator introduces Mastery Learning, emphasizing that students thrive when given opportunities to learn at their own pace and level of difficulty....