Personalize Learning (#plearnchat)

How can Personalized Learning support the Common Core standards? Are you wondering how teachers can create personalized learning environments that support the diversity of learners in their classroom along with meeting the new CCSS?

 

Kathleen McClaskey, President and Digital Learning Consultant, EdTech Associates and Barbara Bray, Creative Learning Strategist, Rethinking Learning, will share the first steps in moving to a personalized learning environment to help each learner understand how they learn best, including:

 

> Understanding the differences between differentiation, individualization and personalization

 

> An overview of Universal Design of Learning and Personal Learner Profiles

 

> An example of a classroom redesign to support personalized learning environments

 

> Examples of three personal learner profiles, one Common Core ELA standard, and scenarios of how these diverse learners are supported and use multiple approaches to meet the standard

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is used to design curriculum, lessons and instruction based on the diversity of the learners in their classroom.

 

How can UDL guide personalize learning to meet the Common Core?

 

When a teacher understands his/her learners through the UDL lens, he/she creates a flexible learning environment and provides opportunities for learner voice and choice. When lessons are designed using the UDL model, the lesson includes goals, methods, materials, tools, and assessments to reach and support the maximum amount of learners in the classroom.

 

Learners can use this model to help them understand how they learn best and what learning path they can take to become an independent expert learner, leveraging their natural abilities in the process. This process helps the learner create their personal learning profile that is understood by both teacher and learner.

 

The importance of this strategy is that both the teacher and the learner understand who the learner is and how they learn best. The learner and the teacher uses the UDL lens to personalize learning. So what does that look like?

 

An example of an 8th Grade unit on the Civil War serves as an example along with two students who can meet a number of CCSS when they choose and use the tools to support their learning.

 

Explore our new website, Personalize Learning (www.personalizelearning.com), to learn more about the research, models and educators who are personalizing learning.