Teachers juggle many responsibilities and often find themselves with limited time for lesson planning. Your solution? Smart Lesson Generator is the fast, connected and effective way to plan lesson activities, so you can get back to doing what you love – teaching. Smart Lesson Generator is an AI-powered tool designed to support educators by streamlining lesson planning and creating engaging, pedagogically-sound content. Here’s why you should consider integrating this tool into your teaching toolkit.
Save time and focus on teaching
One of the most significant challenges teachers face is the overwhelming amount of time spent on planning and administrative tasks. Smart Lesson Generator addresses this issue head-on by enabling teachers to create high-quality lesson activities in just 60 seconds. This time-saving feature allows educators to dedicate more time to engaging with their students and delivering impactful lessons.
Ensure content relevance and engagement
Creating relevant and engaging content is crucial for effective teaching. The Smart Lesson Generator empowers teachers to tailor lesson activities to the specific needs and interests of their students. Whether you’re adapting content based on current events or cultural relevance, the tool ensures that your lessons are always up-to-date and engaging.
Provide differentiated instruction
Catering to a diverse classroom with varying abilities can be challenging. Smart Lesson Generator supports differentiated instruction by offering stretch activities for advanced students and remediation activities for those needing additional support. This feature ensures that all students, regardless of their proficiency level, receive the appropriate level of challenge and support, fostering a more inclusive and effective learning environment.
Pedagogically sound
As educators, I think we can all agree there is a need for effective AI-tools that are designed by teaching experts. Smart Lesson Generator is aligned with ÃÛÌÒapp courses and the Global Scale of English (GSE) framework, ensuring that all generated activities are pedagogically sound and level appropriate. This alignment guarantees that the content you deliver is not only engaging but also meets rigorous educational standards, providing a reliable foundation for student learning.
Explore a variety of activity types
Smart Lesson Generator currently offers six activity types - with more in development - to cater to different teacher needs and styles. These include:
Lesson hook: Engaging warmers to introduce lesson topics and activate prior knowledge
Communication starter: Activities designed to promote student interaction and communication skills
Reading activity: Additional reading practice aligned with lesson content or personalized topics
Exit ticket: Formative assessment tools to evaluate student understanding and encourage reflection
Grammar presentation: Support for mastering key language points relevant to the lesson
Vocabulary presentation: Activities to enhance vocabulary acquisition and usage
Personalize the learning experience
Every classroom is unique, and Smart Lesson Generator allows you to create personalized learning experiences tailored to your students' needs. By generating content based on ÃÛÌÒapp courses or personalized topics, you can ensure that each lesson is relevant and engaging for your students. This personalization fosters a more dynamic and effective learning environment where students are more likely to stay engaged and motivated.
Embrace the future of teaching with Smart Lesson Generator and experience the transformative power of AI in education. Save time, enhance engagement and deliver high-quality, personalized lessons that make a lasting impact on your students.
A: Smart Lesson Generator is aligned with ÃÛÌÒapp courses and the GSE framework, ensuring that all generated content meets rigorous educational standards and is pedagogically sound.
A: While the tool is optimized for use with ÃÛÌÒapp courses, it also allows for the creation of personalized topics, making it versatile for various teaching contexts.
A: The Smart Lesson Generator is currently available to users of specific ÃÛÌÒapp course titles. For detailed information on access, please refer to this page or contact us.
A: ÃÛÌÒapp plans to continue expanding Smart Lesson Generator by adding more course titles and developing new features based on user feedback. The goal is to continuously enhance the tool to better meet educators' needs.
Companies constantly seek methods to optimize workforce productivity and effectiveness. A powerful approach to achieving this goal is through strategic workforce planning bolstered by English language testing. This tactic not only identifies and addresses skills gaps but also reduces attrition and strengthens your workforce for both short-term and long-term success.
With language learning, assessing both the quality and the quantity of language use is crucial for accurate proficiency evaluation. While evaluating quantity (for example the number of words written or the duration of spoken production) can provide insights into a learner's fluency and engagement in a task, it doesn’t show a full picture of a learner’s language competence. For this, they would also need to be evaluated on the quality of what they produce (such as the appropriateness, accuracy and complexity of language use). The quality also considers factors such as grammatical accuracy, lexical choice, coherence and the ability to convey meaning effectively.
In order to measure the quality of different language skills, you can use the Global Scale of English (GSE) assessment frameworks.
Developed in collaboration with assessment experts, the GSE Assessment Frameworks are intended to be used alongside the GSE Learning Objectives to help you assess the proficiency of your learners.
There are two GSE Assessment Frameworks: one for adults and one for young learners.
What are the GSE Assessment Frameworks?
The GSE Assessment Frameworks are intended to be used alongside the GSE Learning Objectives to help teachers assess their learners’ proficiency of all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing).
The GSE Learning Objectives focus on the things a learner can do, while the GSE Assessment Frameworks focus on how well a learner can do these things.
It can help provide you with examples of what proficiencies your learners should be demonstrating.ÌýÌý
It can help teachers pinpoint students' specific areas of strength and weakness more accurately, facilitating targeted instruction and personalized learning plans.
It can also help to motivate your learners, as their progress is evidenced and they can see a clear path for improvement.
An example of the GSE Assessment Frameworks
This example is from the Adult Assessment Framework for speaking.
As you can see, there are sub-skills within speaking (andÌýfor the other three main overarching skills – writing, listening and reading). Within speaking, these areÌýproductionÌýandÌýfluency, spoken interaction, language range andÌýaccuracy.
The GSE range (and corresponding CEFR level) is shown at the top of each column, and there are descriptors that students should ideally demonstrate at that level.
However, it is important to note that students may sit across different ranges, depending on the sub-skill. For example, your student may show evidence of GSE 43-50 production and fluency and spoken interaction, but they may need to improve their language range and accuracy, and therefore sit in a range of GSE 36-42 for these sub-skills.
Teachers shape every aspect of our learning experience, especially when it comes to language learning. Great teachers give learners not only the skills but the confidence to go out in the world, start speaking up and discovering new opportunities.Ìý
We’re celebrating those exceptional educators with the ÃÛÌÒapp English Teacher Awards 2024.Ìý
With five different categories and a Gold, Silver and Bronze winner in each, there are 15 chances to take home thousands of pounds worth of top prizes for the winning teachers and their schools.Ìý
Find out more about who can enter and the different categories in this article.Ìý
