Making sense of personalized learning
Design challenge: draft definition of Personalized Learning in Ridgefield Public Schools.
Inspiration:
From Vista Unified Public Schools, CA:
Personalized learning increasingly puts students at the center of the design of learning experiences where they leverage growing strengths, interests, passions, and ideas to engage in authentic problems and challenges that are aligned to standards and students’ personal goals.
From Manchester Public Schools, CT:
Personalized learning is a progressively student-centered shift in which we work together to deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired goals.
Ideas to Consider in the Design and Development
Metaphor of a sound board: equalizer-full
CHART- Changing Roles of Students and Teachers in Key Elements of Personalized Learning
Slides: rps-slide-deck
What it Looks Like in Practice
Dr. Eric Chagala of VIDA (Vista, Ca.) and Meghan Ofer of Roxborough (Littleton, Co.) chat with Allison Zmuda about what personalized learning looks like in their schools and what they’ve learned as building principals.
Q1: What does personalized learning look like in your school?
Q2: Is personalized learning appropriate for all students?
Q3: How do you work to grow professional practice?
Q4: As a building principal, what is one lesson you learned the hard way?
Q5: What is one thing you can suggest to a building principal to get started with personalized learning?
Website: 7th Grade teacher Pernille Ripp posts her student blogs
Website: Reinventing 3rd Grade; Douglas County, Colorado
Search on Learning Personalized for High School Biology teacher Craig Gastauer to see his personalized learning journey. Here is his first post to get you started.
Click here for a guest post from 6th grade teacher Noelle Johnson on what personalized learning is and is not in her classroom.