How can we differentiate instruction to suit different levels of students?

Typically it is impossible to adjust LOs “on the fly” to suit different students, or groups of students.

What we CAN do, as teachers, is to adjust the TLAs to suit prior levels of knowledge.

For example, the percentage of students in the 6311 course with no prior experience teaching has gone up over the past 5 years from about 50% to basically 100%!    While I cannot really change the LOs of the course without going to the head of the dept and perhaps the board of examiners, I can change the TLAs: I can adjust the key readings to provide more coverage of basic knowledge (such as primers).