Education Post:
In my first year of teaching I had the opportunity to teach in a school that was piloting personalized learning. As I got more comfortable with teaching and as I saw how diverse my classroom was, I began to adopt personalized learning into my instruction. I quickly realized the benefits of this implementation.
I got my feet wet with personalized learning by starting out small. During my readers workshop I would create worksheets, tasks and activities that would go with any book that a student was reading. The students had the opportunity to use books that matched their level, interest and a book that challenged them.
During math, I realized that students have multiple levels of background and schema related to whatever standard I taught. I had to quickly find misconceptions and worked hard to take informal assessment data to create/find assignments and worksheets that helped to remediate some students and challenge others.
