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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?
- Personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally.
- Districts are integrating innovative instructional practices and data-driven tools for more personalized learning.
- Michael Calvert of South Allegheny and Dr. Joseph Mancuso of Eastern York School District discuss their experiences with personalized learning.
- Their Pennsylvania districts are using real-time data to inform instruction, foster student ownership of learning and support teachers in meeting the varied needs of their students.
- The biggest obstacle faced by the districts was getting teachers to adapt to the changes needed, which involved professional development, collaboration and trust.
- Teachers and students need data and technology for flexible grouping, small-group instruction and gaining insights into personalized instruction. Students need to know who they are as learners for successful personalized instruction.
- McGraw Hill Plus for PreK-12 helps teachers integrate various sources of data and personalize student instruction.
- The districts offer advice to other districts considering similar shifts toward personalized instruction, including being systematic, knowing what you want to accomplish and why, and rewarding change efforts.
- They also encourage creating a vision for implementing personalized instruction, ensuring that there are processes and systems to support teachers and students, providing professional learning opportunities and fostering communication and collaboration.
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