Personalized learning involves helping each child to reach his or her full potential - intellectually, personally and socially. To achieve this, teachers need to match learning opportunities to the learning styles and experiences of the children, taking into account individual differences in culture, language, background, ability and interests.
For many teachers, individual learning has always been at the heart of what they do in the classroom. In this book, experienced teacher and author, Joan Dean, unpicks the concept of personalized learning and shows teachers how to apply it to planning, teaching and assessing learning. The book is accessibly written and gets right to the nitty-gritty of what personalized learning looks like in the classroom. It covers:
a whole-school approach to personalized learning
getting to know the children
working with boys and girls
providing for children with special educational needs
providing for very able children
providing for children from other cultures
providing for bilingual children
providing for children from different social backgrounds
working with assistants and volunteers.
