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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. Instead of planning activities based on learning styles, teachers may want to opt for a different, but better researched technique: differentiated instruction. How would you discover a student’s learning style?

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

Summit officials say more than $20 million was invested into the tool in 2017 alone. Since she arrived in 2010, her school has been undergoing reforms and transformations with technology and school culture. People cried. People left. Now this group of teachers is like, ‘If you come into my class, I am teaching you how to read.’.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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What Lessons Does Special Education Hold for Improving Personalized Learning?

MindShift

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Much of this may sound familiar to teachers of special education.