One lesson, three versions, same objective
Lesson 2 of 6 · Planning
1 · Learn the move · Examples + few-shot
Differentiating by hand is the task that eats Sunday. The model is good at it if you give it a worked example of what 'the same objective, a different ramp' looks like in your classroom, and bad at it if you say 'make three levels', which produces an easy, a medium and a hard version of a different lesson. Paste the lesson. Paste one example you have already differentiated, both versions, so the model sees that the objective and the assessment stay fixed and only the scaffolding, the text complexity or the number of steps moves. Then ask for three versions of the new lesson on that pattern, and ask it to state, for each, exactly what changed and what did not. Which student gets which version is a decision about a child, and it stays yours; no student goes in by name to make it.
Here is a lesson I differentiated last month, both versions, with the objective and the exit ticket identical across them: [paste both]. Learn the pattern: what moved and what stayed fixed. Now here is a new lesson: [paste]. Produce three versions on the same pattern, labelled by the scaffold rather than by a level name. For each, list WHAT CHANGED and WHAT STAYED THE SAME, and confirm the objective and the exit ticket are word-for-word identical across all three. Do not assign versions to students; I will.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A fourth-grade teacher at Larkspur Elementary has a fractions lesson and a class that spans three years of readiness. Her first ask, 'make three levels', comes back as three lessons on three different things. She pastes last month's two versions of a measurement lesson instead, where the exit ticket was the same and only the number line changed from labelled to blank. The three versions that come back share one exit ticket and differ in whether the fraction strips are pre-cut, pre-labelled, or absent. She knows which child gets which. The model does not need to.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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