Education
PERSONALIZED LEARNING FOR
HIGH SCHOOL
Personalized learning adapts a structured educational environment into a malleable
approach to learning and teaching. Each learning style is different, and there is not one
approach to teaching that fits them all. Personalized learning provides students with
attainable success in the classroom by allowing teachers to understand the strengths and
weaknesses of each individual student and adapt lesson plans to allow students to work
at their own pace.
Building Student Profiles: Personalized learning pulls from the
strengths and weaknesses of individual students and tailors lessons
to improve learning outcomes. Teachers are able to utilize these
pathways to learning to guide their students to success.
Digital Approach to Personalized Learning: Utilizing data
from digital coursework provides an even stronger approach
to personalized learning through analytics. These analytics
monitor a student’s performance and can predict future
patterns for learning, giving teachers the tools necessary to
prepare an appropriate curriculum for their students.
Teacher Adaptation: Teachers develop a new approach
to instructing their students when adopting personalized
learning. In a typical classroom, there are students who are
ahead of the curve and students behind the curve, with very few
considered to be on the curve. A teacher typically aims to teach on
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the curve, with students on either end
falling short of their learning capabilities.
Personalized learning gives faculty the
ability to spend more time tailoring their
approach on an individual level.
Use Case: A high school in San
Diego is currently implementing the
personalized learning approach in
classrooms after receiving a $10 million
grant aimed at making high schools more
personal. The effort launched
two years ago with a small
group of students. After
seeing firsthand the
academic success of
these students, the
school decided to
take the approach
school-wide by
introducing one
grade level every
year, starting with the
freshmen of 2017.
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