Personalized Learning Toolkit
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This page contains resources to help educators think through, plan for, and implement a transition to personalized learning.
The End of Average: Harvard's Todd Rose on Why Individuality Is the Key to the Future
Personalized Learning: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities – Roadmap for School & District Leaders.pdfWhat is personalized learning?
Introduction to Exemplar Resources
Personalization v Differentiation v Individualization (v3).pdfStages of Personalized Learning Environments (v5).pdf
Rethinking Student Information: Personalized Learning Profiles, Backpacks, and Plans
Introduction to an Exemplar Resource from Digital Learning Now
Click below to learn more about this infographic from Digital Learning Now.
Individual Learner Profiles (LPs)
Students have Learning Profiles (LPs) that describe their strengths, challenges, preferences, and needs. LPs are established to build relationships and develop self-understanding.
Students have Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) that include personalized approaches to engagement, representation, and action/expression during learning cycles. (see UDL below).
Class Learning Snapshots
Teachers plan for engagement, representation, and action/expression during learning cycles (Universal Design for Learning or UDL). The CLS is a tool to plan for the range of learner needs, interests, and learning pathways.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Introduction to an Exemplar Resource
According to the Cast website: "The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities." http://udlguidelines.cast.org/
UDL Framework.pdfHow do I make it happen?
Introduction to Exemplar Resources
The First 20 Days of Personalized Learning (Education Elements 2018).pdfGetting Started
What does it look like to engage learners in the early steps of personalized learning?
This infographic and the associated resources from Education Elements take educators through four components of personalized learning in 20 days:
1) data-driven decision,
2) targeted instruction,
3) flexible content and tools, and
4) student reflection and ownership.
Each step is a bite-sized and personalized for educators and students.
Instruction Model Infographics (Secondary).pdfClick for an example from Education Elements of how to structure personalized learning at the secondary level.
Instructional Model Infographics (Elementary)