I’ll Take that Education to Go: Individualization vs. Standardization

heather — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:42:19 +0000

We live in a world of double-decaf-non-fat-lattes-with-room. We live in a world that is slowly beginning to customize everything from our coffee orders to our spa treatments. But it won’t just stop with luxury items.

Some teachers complain about the effort that differentiation entails, that need to offer rigorous curriculum for a wide range of learners. But just you wait: individualization is coming just around the corner, where students will be able to order up their own education, their own schedule of classes to go. And those schedules won’t be limited to what’s only offered on their school site.(...)
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Post tags: Curriculum, differentiation, individualization, k12, middle schoool, standardization, standardized testing

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Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?

heather — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:44 +0000

According to Psychcentral.com, “Learning Styles are being re-evaluated” and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another.

Shrug. Cue eye roll.(...)
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Post tags: differentiation, learning styles, multi, multiple-intelligences, standardization, syn-naps, test scores

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I’ll Take that Education to Go: Individualization vs. Standardization

Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?