Individualizing Instruction

Résumé du livre

"For you-today's teacher in elementary, secondary, and intermediate schools-the tools to transform basic education formats into tailor-made learning experiences suited to any age group, at any level of instruction are presented here in step-by-step form. Here are tried and proven strategies to achieve the exact optimum of learning for the bright child, the average child, or the slow learner. This handbook provides solid programs that result in the attainment of the specific behavioral objectives you seek. You can enjoy highly personalized instruction without the noise and chaos normally associated with individualization! Diagnostic techniques that encompass the needs of every child-in terms of what he has learned and what he hasn't-are demonstrated in such a manner to facilitate teacher construction of these inexpensive devices. TEACH THE CHILD WHO CAN'T DEVIDE-AND THE CHILD READY FOR CALCULUS The author deal extensively with establishing the ideal classroom situation, giving the child the all important psychological security necessary for personal growth, and providing an atmosphere in which you the teacher and the learner may find true satisfaction. You'll know when to reteach to accelerate quickly, and when to allow more time for individual or group study. Covered within this book is a world of individualized approaches such as: Sample lesson plans to enable you to individualize any subject area; Sample units of classwork to provide you with a constant source of creative instruction; Simple, clear directions for preparing low cost diagnostic and evaluation tests to help you avoid expensive printed materials; Sections on How-to-Study, How-to-Learn-from-a-text to guide your students and add ease to every instruction situation; Learning games to make your teaching fun; Questionnaires on your students' social attitude to aid in diagnostic overviews. These techniques, and a great many more, are arranged and presented in such a manner that you can expand or modify individualized instruction as you wish within the present traditional classroom framework. It's not necessary to drastically alter your style of teaching or to drastically alter your style of teaching or to cast aside all group instruction. This type of education allows infinite flexibility resulting in a more successful, more viable learning experience for all concerned. You may adopt any aspect you feel will enhance your teaching structure-be it diagnosis, teaching, planning or evaluation. In an era when children are being educated from so many sources-Kalin and Berger have given you in this book the strategies to meet the educational challenges posed to you by today's individual child."--Publisher.