Education
technology along the way. They would be doing their students a
disservice if they choose to ignore the fact that technology has
become woven into our daily lives, but they are taking cautious steps
to ensure that they are using and teaching technology in a beneficial
way. Doing so provides students with a fundamental approach to
utilizing technology to increase productivity, access resources and to
lay the groundwork for use in their future careers. Teachers continue
to learn and grow through continuing education courses that allow
them to integrate new methods for incorporating technology in the
classroom to ultimately guide our students to a successful future.
Providing students with access to technology in a structured
setting provides them with the freedom to individually learn and
discover solutions to real-world problems and prepare them for the
future. Students have a paved path to achieve success with the help
of cooperative, communal workspaces, online portals that encourage
cross-collaboration, and support from their teachers, peers and
parents.
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
the curve,
with students
on either end
falling short of their
learning capabilities.
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