The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction

The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction advocates for personalized instruction to help all students succeed with difficult learning challenges. It offers practical information on designing or redesigning schools to meet individual students' needs and challenge them toward deeper learning. The book describes a process called DPIE and includes examples and research-based strategies and tactics from historical antecedents and exemplary schools.

Format: Hardback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 12 October 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The Power to Learn: The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction presents a compelling argument for the adoption of personalized instruction in schools to ensure the success of all students in tackling challenging learning tasks. Grounded in the belief that all students possess the potential for learning, the book provides practical insights and strategies to design or redesign schools to meet individual students' academic needs and challenge them to achieve deeper learning. The central concept of the book is the DPIE process, which involves diagnosis, prescription, implementation, and evaluation. Historical antecedents and twenty-two research-based strategies and tactics are highlighted, along with examples from early 20th-century schools. Additionally, five exemplary schools from preschool to high school are showcased as models of personalized instruction in practice.

Weight: 463g
Dimension: 227 x 160 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475868142
Edition number: 3rd Edition