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Leveraging AI to Meet Diverse Needs

in SLIFE

Panelist Name: Anna Perham

Grade 5 ESL Teacher at the Shaw-Taylor Upper Campus 2-6

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The Challenge:

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Describe the WHY behind this work

What is the challenge or need I am responding to?

This year is my first year teaching and adapting resources for SLIFE students, in any capacity.

What was I curious about experimenting with?

I have been open to AI from the start—I started teaching in 2022, so I’ve been interested in using it from the beginning.
Using AI as a tool to make me more productive and efficient.
My mindset shift may be different from others—I now wonder if I use AI too much.

AI can help me.

Am I relying on AI too much?

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Context

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What I Tried

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Student

Resources

Cloze Sentences and Paragraphs

Picture Dictionary

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Prompt

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Final Product

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Creating Instructional Supports for EL Curriculum

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IMPACT

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Question: How does using Chat Gpt to create word banks and sentence frames impact planning practice and student outcomes?

Chat GPT Impacts my planning Practice:

Efficiently making materials
Saves planning time
Aligning sentence frames/words banks directly to the passage/ task ect.

Chat GPT impacts student outcomes:

Lessens students mental load
Can make activities more culturally responsive.
Increase accessibility
Provides concrete scaffolds for students to refer to
Appropriate/ domain specific word banks on vocabulary / topics
Sentence frames based on skills/ task/ eld level ect

Impact of AI in Planning and Student Outcomes

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Keeping Tasks Rigorous While Leveraging AI

Question: How do I keep tasks rigorous while leveraging AI?

Key Points:

AI generates scaffolds, not simplifications.
Maintain high expectations while differentiating support.�
Use AI to create visual supports like picture dictionaries for SLIFE students.�
Helps students acquire and use academic vocabulary in context.�

Example: I use ChatGPT to scaffold reading and writing tasks using grade-level curriculum texts.�

AI helps adapt materials without reducing cognitive demand, making learning more inclusive and responsive.

EL Glossary for Text

AI Picture Dictionary

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Essential Ingredients for Leveraging AI

What to Do	What NOT to Do
Know your students' needs before using AI.	Let AI create materials without thinking about your students.
Align AI prompt to curriculum specific tasks. Be Specific.	Avoid being to general “sentence frames for a narrative” could = a first person narrative not a third person narrative
Re-read and tweak AI-generated content.Expect to make small edits to AI-created resources. Typically I copy my output onto a google doc then continue to add visuals etc.	Assume AI materials are perfect as-is. Think AI will give you a perfect, ready-to-use lesson every time.
Try different prompts to see what works best.	Avoid AI just because it's new.
Ask AI to create scaffolds for grade level, language level, or student needs.	Ask AI to modify the material to meet the students level. ***

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Assessing the Impact of AI on Student Learning

Question: What formal or informal assessments have you used to determine impact on students?

Pre- Unit Assessment

Culturally responsive questions
Gives students choices
Used to create tired supports /students grouping based on work.

Weekly exit tickets:

Used to check understanding of weekly skill weekly skill.

Example: Week 1 focus is identifying opinion statements.

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Grade 5 SLIFE students will be able to read the text using a picture dictionary with words from the glossary and text that students need to understand the text.

Create a picture dictionary in a table format that include the Words organized by letter, the word, a space for a visual support, short definition, and short example.