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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 book illustrates 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
Personalized Learning gives you solid, flexible tools to enhance your school's depth and generate successful outcomes.
“With a sharp eye for detail, Clarke reminds us that students can and must make their own sense of the world, but to do so, they need smart and flexible frameworks, the company of attentive adults, and lots of back and forth about the important big ideas.”
—Larry Myatt, Founder and President
The Education Resources Consortium
Shaping the Process of Inquiry
Shaping the Process of Inquiry
At Pathways, we don't teach students what to think. We teach them how to think.
Overview
The five Mount Abraham Graduation Competencies give students a clear, steady target for their work each semester while they slowly gather evidence that they are progressing toward higher levels of achievement. The semesters follow a sequence of seven phases that move students from “big” but vague ideas to specific plans in a wide variety of activities, during which they create and gather evidence of learning for their exhibitions and portfolios. Veteran Pathways students often simplify this sequence by following the trajectory of earlier projects toward new challenges. Whatever evidence they accumulate through projects, the process itself is a pattern of learning, ...
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