personalized education

Custom-fit instruction

Personalized education is instruction tailored to individual students' needs, pace, and learning styles rather than delivered uniformly to a class.

Technology often enables this—adaptive software adjusts difficulty based on performance, and data tracks each student's progress.

The approach assumes students learn better when teaching meets them where they are: Her personalized education plan included extra time for math and accelerated reading.

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diagnostic tools · flexible seating · constructivism · e-portfolios · learning analytics · learning styles · Khan Academy · flipped classroom · IEP · special needs support · one-on-one instruction · tutoring · small group work

Opposites
instructional approach

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Teaching available to all

rote learning · passive learning

scale and uniformity

personalized educationmass education

Teaching available to all

national curriculum

scale and standardization

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Fixed educational program across schools

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