personalized learning
Customized student instruction
Personalized learning is an educational approach that tailors instruction to individual students' needs, pace, interests, or learning styles.
The term covers everything from adaptive software that adjusts difficulty based on performance to teachers designing custom curricula: The district invested in personalized learning platforms.
Critics note the phrase often masks technology-driven cost-cutting dressed as innovation.
- flipped classroomPre-class content, in-class practice
- constructivismActive knowledge-building theory
- self-assessmentEvaluating your own performance
- microlearningBrief, focused instructional chunks
- diagnostic testingTests identifying conditions
IEP · self-paced · scaffolding · peer assessment · competency · individualized · one-on-one tutoring · formative assessment · student-centered · differentiated · pathway · portfolio · tutoring · feedback · progress · tracking · goals · dashboard
- Education valuesliteracy, curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, excellence
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- teaching methodspresentation, lecturing, discussion, modeling, questioning
- tutoringmath tutor, math tutors, tutors, reading tutors, private tutoring
- Education Methodsprogressive education, Montessori, Waldorf, homeschooling, unschooling
- edtecheducational software, online classes, Moodle, STEM, digital education