Personalized Learning In The Middle Grades

Author : Penny Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Individualized instruction
ISBN : 1682533174

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Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades by Penny Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber Pdf

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades shows how teachers can leverage the use of personalized learning plans (PLPs) to increase student agency and engagement, helping youth to establish learning goals aligned with their interests and assess their own learning--particularly around essential skills that cut across disciplines. The authors show how personalized learning aligns with effective middle grades practice and provide in-depth examples of how educators have implemented PLPs in a wide range of schools representing different demographics and grade configurations. Full of engaging examples, artifacts, and tools, the book connects the emerging field of personalized learning with the developmental needs of middle schoolers to provide a unique and valuable resource for teachers, school leaders, and teacher‐educators. "This book blends theory with practice, weaves what we know about young adolescents and best practices in middle grades, and gives specific, detailed descriptions of every aspect needed to implement personalized learning. Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades provides theory, tools, examples, and insights to develop an exemplary middle school. As a middle grades advocate, I love how this book details how we can meet the needs of young adolescents using this practice." --Nancy Ruppert, professor and chair, Department of Education, University of North Carolina, Asheville, and past president, Association for Middle Level Education "Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades is a must-have guide for anyone wishing to implement or improve personalized learning in the school or classroom. It is chock-full of vignettes, research-based rationales, and practical how-tos that give middle level educators a clear picture of personalized learning as well as the tools and strategies needed to create a student-centered culture that fosters academic learning and personal growth in the best way possible." --Patti Kinney, National Middle Level Principal of the Year, and past president, Association for Middle Level Education Penny A. Bishop is a professor of middle level education at the University of Vermont, where she conducts research on schooling for young adolescents and teaches future middle grades educators. John M. Downes is a director of the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education at the University of Vermont. Katy Farber is a professional development coordinator at the University of Vermont's Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education.

Author : Penny A. Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682533192

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Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades by Penny A. Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber Pdf

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades shows how teachers in grades 5–8 can leverage the use of personalized learning plans (PLPs) to increase student agency and engagement, helping youth to establish learning goals aligned with their interests and assess their own learning—particularly around essential skills that cut across disciplines. Drawing on their research and work with fifty schools in Vermont, where PLPs are used statewide, the authors show how personalized learning aligns with effective middle grades practice and provide in-depth examples of how educators have implemented PLPs in a wide range of schools representing different demographics and grade configurations. They also highlight five critical roles for teachers in personalized learning environments—as empowerer, scaffolder, scout, assessor, and community builder—and illustrate how teachers can adapt the PLP process for their own unique contexts. Grounded in experience and full of engaging examples, artifacts, and tools, the book builds on the emerging field of personalized learning and connects it with the developmental needs of middle schoolers to provide a unique and valuable resource for individual classroom teachers, teacher teams, school leaders, teacher‐educators, and others.

Author : Kathleen M. Brinegar,Lisa M. Harrison,Ellis Hurd
Publisher : IAP
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641136754

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Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades by Kathleen M. Brinegar,Lisa M. Harrison,Ellis Hurd Pdf

While developmental responsiveness is a deservingly key emphasis of middle grades education, this emphasis has often been to the detriment of focusing on the cultural needs of young adolescents. This Handbook volume explores research relating to equity and culturally responsive practices when working with young adolescents. Middle school philosophy largely centers on young adolescents as a collective group. This lack of focus has great implications for young adolescents of marginalized identities including but not limited to those with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQ youth, and those living in poverty. If middle level educators claim to advocate for young adolescents, we need to mainstream conversations about supporting all young adolescents of marginalized identities. It empowers researchers, educators, and even young adolescents to critically examine and understand the intersectionality of identities that historically influenced (and continue to affect) young adolescents and why educators might perceive marginalized youth in certain ways. It is for these reasons that researchers, teachers, and other key constituents involved in the education of young adolescents must devote themselves to the critical examination and understanding of the historical and current socio-cultural factors affecting all young adolescents. The chapters in this volume serve as a means to open an intentional and explicit space for providing a critical lens on early adolescence–a lens that understands that both developmental and cultural needs of young adolescents need to be emphasized to create a learning environment that supports every young adolescent learner.

Author : James Rickabaugh
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416621607

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Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning by James Rickabaugh Pdf

In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute’s half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students’ learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence. Tried and rigorously tested in urban, suburban, and rural districts--and in different academic and economic settings--the IPL model has been proven to enhance student engagement and achievement at all levels. Rickabaugh provides principals and other top-level leaders with * Step-by-step guidance for implementing the model; * A detailed overview of the research and work behind the model’s development; * A complete introduction to the heart of the model—a comprehensive, multi-layered framework centered on the three core components of learner profiles, customized learning paths, and proficiency-based progress; * Tools and activities for assessing and adjusting the model to meet the specific needs of students and staff; * Strategies for increasing and reinforcing enthusiasm for the change process among everyone involved, from the classroom to the greater community; and * An abundance of real-life examples and reflections from students, teachers, principals, and superintendents whose schools have flourished in record time and with minimal additional funding or resources. Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning offers a blueprint that dramatically improves student outcomes and prepares today’s learners to meet life’s challenges in college and beyond.

Author : Peggy Grant,Dale Basye
Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781564845443

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Personalized Learning by Peggy Grant,Dale Basye Pdf

Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes. Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today—technology as a way to ‘personalize’ the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

Author : Barbara Bray,Kathleen McClaskey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483388113

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Make Learning Personal by Barbara Bray,Kathleen McClaskey Pdf

Put learning back into the hands of the learner! Personalized learning empowers learners to take control of their own learning. This resource draws on Universal Design for Learning® principles to create a powerful shift in classroom dynamics by developing self-directed, self-motivated learners. You’ll discover: A system that reduces barriers and maximizes learning for all learners An explanation distinguishing personalization from differentiation and individualization The Stages of Personalized Learning Environments that transform teacher and learner roles. Background information to build a rationale on why to personalize learning Strategies around the culture shift in classrooms and schools as you personalize learning. As recognized authorities, the authors have led educational innovation for almost three decades.

Author : John F. Pane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Charter schools
ISBN : OCLC:993578671

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Informing Progress by John F. Pane Pdf

"The basic concept of personalized learning (PL)--instruction that is focused on meeting students' individual learning needs while incorporating their interests and preferences--has been a longstanding practice in U.S. K-12 education. Options for personalization have increased as personal computing devices have become increasingly affordable and available in schools and developers created software to support individual student learning. In recent years, it has become more common for schools to embrace schoolwide models of PL. We collected data from schools in the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC)'s Breakthrough School Models program. Our study seeks to describe the practices and strategies these schools used to implement PL, understand some of the challenges and facilitators, and consider these alongside achievement findings to discern patterns that may be informative. Teachers and students reported higher levels of many aspects of personalization than their counterparts in a national sample. These included time for one-on-one tailored support for learning; using up-to-date information on student progress to personalize instruction and group students; students tracking their own progress; competency-based practices; and flexible use of staff, space, and time. However, some more-difficult-to-implement aspects did not appear to differ from practices in schools nationally, such as student discussions with teachers on progress and goals; keeping up-to-date documentation of student strengths, weaknesses, and goals; and student choice of topics and materials. We estimate study students gained about 3 percentile points in mathematics relative to a comparison group of similar students. In reading, there was a similar trend, though it was not statistically significant. Low-performing and high-performing students appeared to benefit"--Publisher's description.

Author : John H. Clarke
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452299716

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Personalized Learning by John H. Clarke Pdf

Your guide to making a whole-school move toward personalized learning! Give students the freedom to map their own educational pathways and help them meet graduation standards! This bookillustrates how to support students to take advantage of resources from the community, colleges, virtual platforms, and creative outlets to design their own education. Readers will: Hear from educators who have successfully steered schools toward personalized learning Get specific tips to help your entire staff implement key processes and measure outcomes Find answers to the big questions that threaten success Use models of prompts and rubrics to get your pilot program started

Author : Paul Emerich France
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071875940

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Reclaiming Personalized Learning by Paul Emerich France Pdf

Put the person back in personalization with a touch of humanity. It’s a paradox: technology to individualize curriculum has made classrooms less personal. In the second edition of this groundbreaking book, Paul France presents a vision of humanized personalization that rejects the corporate mindset and instead holds equity and inclusion at its center. Features include: Practical guidance on designing inclusive learning environments for diverse groups Sustainable applications for humanized personalization in curriculum design, assessment, and instruction Real-life stories from the author’s experience on both sides of the personalization debate A multitude of classroom tools, adaptable to a variety of instructional contexts

Author : Larry G. Daniel
Publisher : IAP
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641132411

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Middle Grades Research Journal by Larry G. Daniel Pdf

Middle Grades Research Journal (MGRJ) is a refereed, peer reviewed journal that publishes original studies providing both empirical and theoretical frameworks that focus on middle grades education. A variety of articles are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each volume year.

Author : Todd Kettler,Cheryl Taliaferro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000495157

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Personalized Learning in Gifted Education by Todd Kettler,Cheryl Taliaferro Pdf

Gifted students can exhibit extreme variance in both their abilities and their interests, yet they are often treated within schools as one homogeneous, specialized population. Personalized Learning in Gifted Education helps educators strengthen their differentiation of both instruction and services for advanced students. This book: • helps educators develop the specific gifts and talents of the gifted students they serve • demonstrates how educators can utilize the wealth of data they have at their disposal • provides a rationale and blueprint for a stronger, more personalized approach to gifted education • offers suggestions for both elementary and secondary schools. Recommendations center around five features of personalized learning: personalized learning plans, project- or problem- based learning, competency-based progression through the curriculum, criterion-referenced assessments, and multi-year mentoring.

Author : National Middle School Association
Publisher : National Middle School Assn
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1560902329

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This We Believe by National Middle School Association Pdf

Author : Julie Stern,Krista Ferraro,Kayla Duncan,Trevor Aleo
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071835876

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Learning That Transfers by Julie Stern,Krista Ferraro,Kayla Duncan,Trevor Aleo Pdf

"It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transfer become much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools." - John Hattie Teach students to use their learning to unlock new situations. How do you prepare your students for a future that you can’t see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do. Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students’ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems. Using a backwards design approach, this hands-on guide walks teachers step-by-step through the process of identifying curricular goals, establishing assessment targets, and planning curriculum and instruction that facilitates the transfer of learning to new and challenging situations. Key features include Thinking prompts to spur reflection and inform curricular planning and design. Next-day strategies that offer tips for practical, immediate action in the classroom. Design steps that outline critical moments in creating curriculum for learning that transfers. Links to case studies, discipline-specific examples, and podcast interviews with educators. A companion website that hosts templates, planning guides, and flexible options for adapting current curriculum documents. Using a framework that combines standards and the best available research on how we learn, design curriculum and instruction that prepares your students to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, while addressing the unique needs of your school community.

Author : Dianne L. Ferguson
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780871205209

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Designing Personalized Learning for Every Student by Dianne L. Ferguson Pdf

Explore six promising practices that high schools are using to personalize education: guided personalized learning, personal learning plans, personalized teaching, community-based learning, and personalized assessment.

Author : David C. Virtue
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003850854

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Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 3 by David C. Virtue Pdf

This insightful book presents and discusses the dialogues that took place in the New Directions in Middle Level Education Research session at the 2022 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference. Carefully crafted and expert-led chapters draw upon four recent studies that were published in Research in Middle Level Education Online, the research journal of AMLE, and which were featured in a roundtable discussion at the 2022 AMLE conference. Each section of the book includes one of the four studies accompanied by two companion pieces offering different perspectives on the work. In the companion essays, the original authors enrich and extend their research by incorporating feedback from the conference session discussions, revisiting their findings and conclusions, considering alternative approaches to further research, and proposing new or clarified implications for practice. The book also comprises contributions from middle level education experts, who offer responses to each study, offering perspectives, critiques, and commentaries. Reflecting the generative, dialogic, knowledge-building process that took place at the AMLE conference, it showcases the collaborative work of middle level researchers who draw ideas and inspiration for their studies from prior research and accounts of practice, as well as their own experiences in the field. This book is an excellent resource for researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of middle level education, educational research, and research methods in education.