AI Prompts for Support & Differentiation

Educational technology is constantly evolving, so my PD catalog has to change as well to keep up with everything new. During the course of the year I typically add several new sessions to my offerings. 

At the moment my PD catalog has over 70 different sessions that I offer for schools, conferences, and organizations. You can see the full catalog here - https://bit.ly/curts-pd

Recently I added a new session that covers AI prompts for student support and differentiation. 

See below for all the details and session resources. Feel free to use these resources any way you need, and if your school or conference is interested in this session or others, please reach out to me to discuss options for me to join you in person or virtually.

🧰 Session Resources

• 🔑 AI Prompts for Student Support & Differentiation
• Description: In this session we will explore practical AI prompts specific for supporting diverse learners, accommodations, behavior intervention, Special Education, and more. Prompts we will try out may include Accommodation Suggestions, AI Tutor, Alternate Assessment, Behavior Intervention, Choice Board, Differentiation Strategies, Guided Notes, IEP/504 SMART Goal, Learner Scaffolds, Project Breakdown, Reading Level Analyzer, Social Stories, UDL Lesson Remixer, Vocabulary Tiers and more
• Resource Doc - https://bit.ly/support-prompts
• Slideshow - View Slides - Copy Slides

🧑‍🏫 Teacher-focused Support Prompts

Below are selected AI prompts for support and differentiation with a focus on teacher usage. These can be used as Gems in Gemini, or the prompts can be copied and used in any AI chatbot of your choice.

🔑 Accommodation Suggestions

• edugems.ai/gem/accommodation-suggestions
• Generate a set of specific, evidence-based accommodations and modifications for a student with learning needs
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🎚️ Alternate Assessment

• edugems.ai/gem/alternate-assessment
• Create high-quality alternate versions of your existing quizzes or tests for retakes, make-ups, or differentiation (lower level, higher level, accommodations)
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🚦 Behavior Intervention

• edugems.ai/gem/behavior-intervention
• Create a set of specific, relevant, and grade-appropriate behavior intervention strategies tailored to your students' unique needs
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🔠 Choice Board

• edugems.ai/gem/choice-board
• Generate a detailed, accessible, and engaging Choice Board for any student assignment, tightly aligned to your instructional and UDL goals
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

⚖️ Concept Analogies

• edugems.ai/gem/concept-analogies
• Generate 3 distinct, grade-appropriate analogies that map a difficult idea to a familiar scenario or interest
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🔠 Differentiation Strategies

• edugems.ai/gem/differentiation-strategies
• Create a set of specific, evidence-based differentiation strategies and accommodations tailored for a lesson, assessment, or learning material
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🧭 Guided Notes

• edugems.ai/gem/guided-notes
• Transform any source text (video transcript, article, short story, or textbook chapter) into comprehensive Guided Notes
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🎯 IEP/504 SMART Goal

• edugems.ai/gem/iep504-smart-goal
• Generate high-quality IEP/504 SMART goals based on a student's data, needs, strengths, grade level, and special education category
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🪜 Learner Scaffolds

• edugems.ai/gem/learner-scaffolds
• Create a structured, comprehensive, and evidence-based set of learning scaffolds that cover the full learning cycle (front-end, distributed, and back-end supports)
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🪜 Low Floor High Ceiling

• edugems.ai/gem/low-floor-high-ceiling
• Transform traditional, closed-ended, or one-size-fits-all classroom tasks into dynamic Low-Floor, High-Ceiling (LFHC) learning experiences
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link - Gemini link - Gemini link

🎚️ Reading Level Analyzer

• edugems.ai/gem/reading-level-analyzer
• Determine the reading level of a text and help adapt the material as needed to make it appropriate for your students
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chats - Gemini link, Gemini link

📖 Social Stories

• edugems.ai/gem/social-stories
• Generate a specific, highly customized social story to help a student understand and prepare for a particular event or situation
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🎛️ UDL Lesson Remixer

• edugems.ai/gem/udl-lesson-remixer
• Remix your traditional lesson plans to make them more inclusive, flexible, and accessible for all learners
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🪜 Vocabulary Tiers

• edugems.ai/gem/vocabulary-tiers
• Categorize words from a text into Tier 1 (Basic), Tier 2 (High-Utility Academic), and Tier 3 (Domain-Specific) to support student comprehension
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

📑 Worked Example Generator

• edugems.ai/gem/worked-example-generator
• Generate classroom-ready scaffolding resources for students including a worked example, mistake correction activity, and faded practice
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🧑‍🎓 Student-focused Support Prompts

Below are selected AI prompts for support and differentiation with a focus on student usage. These can be used as Gems in Gemini, or the prompts can be copied and used in any AI chatbot of your choice.

🧑‍🏫 AI Tutor

• edugems.ai/gem/ai-tutor
• A Socratic and encouraging study partner to help students develop deep understanding and skills
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

📋 Project Breakdown

• edugems.ai/gem/project-breakdown
• Help students manage their workload by breaking complex projects into manageable micro-steps with a clear timeline
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

❓ Quiz Me

• edugems.ai/gem/quiz-me
• Help students master academic concepts for any topic with an encouraging, patient, and adaptive personal quiz tutor
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

📖 Reading Comprehension Coach

• edugems.ai/gem/reading-comprehension-coach
• Help students read and deeply understand challenging texts by acting as an encouraging, patient, and adaptive literacy mentor
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

⭐ Student Assignment Feedback

• edugems.ai/gem/student-assignment-feedback
• Provide students with immediate, detailed, and constructive feedback on their work based on assignment details and grading criteria
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

📝 Thesis Coach

• edugems.ai/gem/thesis-coach
• Help students develop a strong, clear thesis statement for their research papers without ever doing the writing for them
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

📑 Worked Example Coach

• edugems.ai/gem/worked-example-coach
• Guide students one turn at a time from studying a worked example, to correcting a mistake, to fading practice and solving problems independently
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

🌱 Writing Elaboration

• edugems.ai/gem/writing-elaboration
• Help student expand their ideas and add strong elaboration to their writing by posing highly targeted questions to prompt deeper thinking
• Use the Gem: Gem link
• Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt
• Sample chat - Gemini link

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