Personalized Learning Initiative
Link to Slides:
bit.ly/personalized2015
Background
- Started in summer of 2014
- Developed definitions of personalized learning, teaching, and educational technology
- Built crosswalks between the definitions and Educator Effectiveness Model
- Develop tool to assess the current level of personalized learning
- Personalized Learning Initiative Summit
Gregg Dionne: Supervisor of the Curriculum and Instruction Unit
dionneg@michigan.gov
Definition: Personalized Learning
- Personalized learning occurs when the student has a degree of choice over his or her education in terms of delivery, context, and pacing.
- Individual outcomes and how proficiency will be demonstrated is collaboratively defined. The student’s interests, experiences, and abilities guide his or her learning, making new information more relevant and meaningful.
- This approach has the potential to build the student’s capacity and desire to learn beyond the scope of the curriculum and the confines of the classroom.
Definition: Personalized Teaching
- Personalized teaching is the continual collaboration between the teacher and the student with the teacher facilitating, mentoring, and monitoring of student choices about personal learning plans.
- It incorporates flexibility within the learning environment to allow student needs to drive instructional strategies, assessments, use of time, and materials.
- By connecting a student’s instruction to his or her personal interests, experiences, and abilities, a greater sense of ownership and efficacy is fostered in the student.
Definition: Educational Technology
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Educational technology is essential to the implementation of personalized learning. When used effectively, educational technology increases the access and engagement of educators and students in a system designed to adapt to the needs of the learner and support the customization of the learner’s teaching and learning.
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Effective use of education technology increases the engagement of educators, students, and peers with learning goals by providing students with more control over their learning.
Definitions can be found here: bit.ly/pldefinitions15
Background
- Started in summer of 2014
- Developed definitions of personalized learning, teaching, and educational technology
- Built crosswalks between the definitions and Educator Effectiveness Model
- Develop tool to assess the current level of personalized learning
- Personalized Learning Initiative Summit
Educator Effectiveness Model Crosswalks
bit.ly/danielsoncrosswalk
Future Stuff
- Personalized Learning Initiative Summit
- Presentations at School Improvement conferences
- Stuff from MDE
Personalized Learning Initiative
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