Chapter 5: Teaching I want the AI to help me really quickly and easily see what my student needs in their learning journey.” —Sarah Hampton By nature, teaching requires significant time in planning as well to account for the breadth of needs across their rosters— especially for inclusive learning environments and students with IEPs and 504 plans. AI could help teachers with recommendations that are tuned to their situation and their ways of practicing teaching and support with adapting found materials to fit their exact classroom needs. For students with an IEP, AI could help with finding components to add to lesson plans to fully address standards and expectations and to meet each student’s unique requirements. Even beyond finding components, AI might help adapt standardized resources to better fit specific needs—for example, providing a voice assistant that allows a student with a visual difficulty to hear material and respond to it or permitting a group of students to present their project using American Sign Language (ASL) which could be audibly voiced for other students using an AI ASL-to-Spoken-English translation capability. Indeed, coordinating IEPs is time-consuming work that might benefit from supportive automation and customized interactivity that can be provided by AI. Reflection is important too. In the bustle of a classroom, it is sometimes difficult to fully understand what a student is expressing or what situations lead to certain positive or negative behaviors. Again, context is paramount. In the moment, teachers may not be aware of external events that could shape their understanding of how students are showing up in their classrooms. Tools that notice patterns and suggest ways to share information might help students and teachers communicate more fully about strengths and needs. 50 | P a g e
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