It uses adaptive learning technology to customize teaching materials to each student's needs and prepare them to cope with the demands of an entrance exam.
The recently-approved contract first surfaced in October 2010, when the city's Panel for Educational Policy voted to extend the consulting contract of six employees in running the "School of One," a Wireless Generation-partnered program that customizes teaching with an online component.
The school day and year would be tailored to ensure students progressed to higher levels of proficiency and to free educators to customize their teaching to individual learner needs.
Increasingly customized by age, books now teach toddlers to make lettuce wraps and older children to make entire meals.
Those four generations, though have elevated the level of interaction between the student and his distant instructor and classmates, are still lacking an essential component for effective teaching, namely customizing the delivery of a course in terms of the material and the style of teaching according to the student profile.
One consequence of teaching your children at home -- and of carefully customizing their media intake -- is that you almost never have the experience of hearing them say something you are surprised and sorry that they know.
Specifically, three departments have worked together with their teaching department, or other training providers, to provide sessions customized to their department on issues such as lesson planning, the institutional learning management system, and difficult conversations with students.
S/he therefore worked with the Faculty of Business to create one hour in the teaching schedule per week where instructors are not teaching, so that there was time for instructors to attend a meeting or customized workshop.
The project website serves as a portal to activity sheets describing each IU, complete with learning goals, teaching tips, and links to teaching materials, as well as downloadable resources and assessment tools, that can be customized by any interested educator.
