Personalized learning is a form of instruction where teacher's curriculum is flexible and designed for each student. Opportunities are given to students to learn in a variety of ways and at their own pace. When curriculum is designed to move forward whether the student learned the skill or not, students can fall behind. I found this to be the case with my own daughter in elementary school. She struggled in math as she had a learning disability. Since the curriculum was based on benchmarks, the teacher moved on to the next skillset even though she did not fully understand the content. Understand she needed to know how to do that skill in order to be successful on the next skill. This frustrated her and me as you can imagine. Through the years I felt like she kept falling farther and farther behind. I think back wishing they offered personalized learning when she was in school.
I wanted to share this video from EDUCAUSE that explains what personalized learning is. The visuals help to explain it and how it can benefit student learning. (Rather than write a long post you will get tired of reading!)
I also found this video that explains the difference between individualized learning and differentiated instruction and how they work together with personalized learning. You may have heard these terms and thought they all were the same, yet each is unique in its own way. Working these instruction models into the classroom will help the student will succeed.
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