Personalized Learning!

1. Personalized Learning!

2. ● Personalized learning is redefining K-12 education in the 21st century. Teaching is no longer about uniform instruction so that all students are meeting the same benchmarks. Personalized learning has taken it to a whole other level, transforming the classroom by tailoring instruction and assessment to each individual student.

3. ● A Definition for Personalized Learning Personalized learning is all about one thing: transforming classroom instruction by tailoring tasks, instruction, and assessment to meet each student’s needs and abilities. Students learn on different levels and in different ways, however, all students must successfully reach a mastery level of the subject matter by the end of the year.

4. ● 5 Tips to Incorporate Personalized Learning Implementing personalized learning can be a long process that takes a lot of editing and perfecting to ensure that students and teachers will see results. Here are some tips to get you started with implementing personalized learning tactics in your classroom. 1. Assess students and begin to think about ways to customize 2. Prepare to make your classroom flexible

5. ● 3. Let students make choices and be a part of the creation of their learning plan ● 4. Learn from others ● 5. Use the technology you already have and implement new Ed Tech tools

6. ● Learning what personalized learning means is important to be an effective educator in the 21st-century learning environment. ● With technology constantly changing K-12 classrooms and introducing new roadblocks and distractions to how students learn and process information, personalizing instruction is critical to the success of both teachers and students in the classroom.

7. ● Personalized Learning Strategies ● 1. Think Big To get the most out of your shift to blended, personalized learning, dare to think holistically about how you envision your classrooms functioning, both in the short-term and in the long-term. What is your ultimate vision? It should go beyond simply using technology to differentiate reading assignments and pacing. At its core, personalized learning should, in fact, put the student at the center of their own learning plan, with their strengths, needs, interests, learning styles.

8. ● 2. Start Small Because personalizing learning requires a significant change in mindset, you can’t do it all at once and you definitely can’t do it alone. Getting teachers involved in the process will be key, as will helping them see all the ways personalized learning tools can and will actually help them and their students Imposing a brand new system by mandate will always meet with natural resistance, no matter the goal or content. Instead, identify a specific pain point for teachers and introduce a personalized learning strategy that will solve it.

9. ● 3. Watch, Listen, and Learn Offering a teacher training and sticking a bunch of laptops into a classroom will not create a personalized learning environment. Nor will trying to personalize learning in one fell swoop, with no room for change. Success will come only if you set and commit to specific short-term and long-term goals; support teachers and students by offering them time, technology, structure, and support; and then watch, listen, and learn from them about where to add, adapt, and improve.