Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom

My school district is moving toward personalized learning, and this book provided an interesting perspective on the subject.

The book is bascially a 'how to' for educators; however, I found it resourceful and inspiring. My child attends a school dedicated to personalized mastery learning and I think this is the best resource so far to explain not only how personalized learning works but how it inspires students to be lifelong learners. Excellent book for people - parents and educators - interested in helping public education evolve.

Easy read, just need to read more of it.

Timely and practical; loved the text and all the resources.

This is the must read book if you are interested in Personalizing Learning. There are many thoughts about this topic out there and the authors do a great job setting the stage for their point of view. After two years of research on our own, our school found this work and it mirrors many ideas we found and we are grateful to the authors for their practical resources and organizational ideas. Our principal is buying this for our entire school. If you only read one book on this topic. THIS is it!

I highly recommend Learning Personalized as an exceedingly useful book for educators wishing to engage individual students in learning. The authors reference and use varied and pertinent sources to illuminate the meaning and effectiveness of personalized student learning. They present tables that are carefully crafted to provide a coherent framework for key ideas and their essential elements. An excellent Personalized Learning Evolution table serves as the primary core reference point for working through how to develop a student-centered education. The authors’ examples and explanations of these deepen understanding of core concepts and provide the reader with rich and relevant models for authentic student learning. The examples follow templates that make sense and can be adopted by teachers readily. These templates are designed for teachers to develop powerful instructional strategies, materials, and tasks/activities/assessments to engage students in learning. From my perspective, Learning Personalized is a major source for educational reform that focuses directly student engagement in productive learning.

This book, unlike other Personalized Learning books I have read, concentrates on the pedagogical shift to student centered learning. It addresses how technology is only a vehicle in the process but the change really occurs when the teacher makes the shift in the role from lecturer to coach. The book offers practical advice, suggestions and resources including examples as models.

Learning Personalized helps explain what personalized learning really is. Personalized learning is a term used easily but this book gives real units, real examples, and real context for what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like in the classroom. I am so grateful for a resource like this that helps me do what is best for my students. Zmuda explains each piece clearly for me. Just waiting for more like this.