One Size Fits All Education Page # 1
Introduction
Most
educators are lifetime learners that is usually the biggest reason why they
teach.
Educators are finding out that it is not enough to
walk into a classroom environment with a
doctorate or more than twenty years of teaching in a
classroom environment, you have to
challenge and engage students. Lectures don’t always
grab their attention, they don’t come from
the same backgrounds or approach learning the same
way their educators do. They may be
diverse learners from diverse cultures and requiring
culturally responsive instruction.
Relationships have to be built that will encourage
students to meet higher expectations, (Davis;
2006). Every educator, every student, every
stakeholder has to take a rigorous curriculum of
character development. Students have to hold each
other to their best efforts, intellectually,
physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially.
Universities also are acting more like businesses
dropped out
of school said more relevant real learning may have influenced them to stay
inn
school. One
size fits all education really does not fit students needs but educators must
continue
to explore what to do about it.
Differentiated Education
Students
have to be provided choices to show their understanding and they have to be
taught
in a responsive way. Differentiated Instruction
allows students to learn and work on skills that
are appropriate at their skill level. They should be
given tiered assignments that provide different
levels of complexity. Students should be allowed to
choose their own topics or sub topics within
a framework the educator provides. It is a concept
that is helping transform the art of teaching
into the science of teaching, (Marzano, Pickering and
Polluck; 2001). This is an era of high
stakes testing when educators are forced to aim
instruction towards what will be assessed not
what the students really want to learn. Tasks
usually are designed to make information
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accessible, increase assimilation and concepts of
authentic ways that enlighten everybody.
Tailoring differentiated instruction is
incorporating motivation, making resources accessible and
encouraging collaborative learning. This will
encourage self esteem and academic success.
Gagne and Briggs incorporated cognitive theory into
instructional theory for conceptualizing
instructional design. Their instructional theory was
based on a set of capabilities and learning
outcomes that students acquired during instruction.
They came up with a set of requirements for
instructional systems design which included the
following:
The
system must be designed for the individual,
It should
include immediate and long-range phases,
It should
substantially affect individual development, and
It must
be based on knowledge of how people learn.
Teachers
are trained to ensure that all students in their classroom get the attention
they require
and all students require individual assistance from
the teacher at one point or another. This is
what makes teaching such a demanding job, but also
what makes teaching so rewarding.
Collaborative Learning is widely considered the best
approach to education, this is when diverse
learners come together. Students learn a great deal
from each other. Educators must learn their
students and find creative ways to adapt to suit the
student’s abilities and pace for learning.
Learner variables have already become important in
instructional theory. In the near future I also
see a trend where unique educator situations will
also be taken into account. As E-Learning
expands educators careers will also be expanding
because of the fluidity of the technology. Good
educators with a great foundation of knowledge will
begin adapting even more to existing
instructional methods, (Tennyson; 2010).
Personalized Education
Personalized education promotes education that is tailored to individual
student learning
styles, interests, and goals. It empowers students
to find their own paths to their own dreams and
create lifelong learners prepared for the modern world and the future, (Personalized
Education.org; 2011). In 1984 Bloom found that average students who
were tutored one on one
outperformed 98 percent of students who were
learning via conventional methods, however this
method is not cost effective. Bill Gates stated that
the best lectures in the world will be online
within the next five years, (Andersen; 2011).
Students would be tagged with Socratic Learning
questions, that were personalized to their own
learning interests, educational spaces instead of
brick and mortar schools, (learning management
system), and a person of authority or instructor.
References
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teaching
2007 Corwin Press;
Thousand Oakes, Ca. Pp. 6-11
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classrooms so that students can learn
together each at their own pace. May 2011
Mazzano, Robert J., Pickering, Debra and Pollock,
Jane; Classroom instruction that works
2007
Quality Paperbacks, Danville, Ma. Pp.
13-29
Murdock, Melissa;
The disadvantages of a one size fits all education. June 28, 2008
Personalized Education.org; Personalized education envision,
create, empower. October
Primary Education Oasis.com; Differentiation in the classroom. October 31, 2011
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Robison, Mike; One
size fits all? Aged based tracking versus ability grouping in elementary
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December 1998, Msu.edu
Taylor, Valorie; One-size-fits-all-vs.
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Tennyson, Robert D.: Historical Reflection on
Learning Theories and Instructional Design
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