How to Differentiate Learning provides guidance for schools and districts to start or improve the effort to differentiate instruction. Based on what educators know about the differences among children they teach, and based on what is known of brain research, teachers must find and embrace ways to differentiate curriculum, assessment and entry…

This article summarizes a unique approach to reducing the achievement gap that strategically blended differentiated curriculum with schoolwide enrichment teaching and learning. The theories of enrichment and instructional differentiation were translated into practice in an elementary school that had previously embraced a remedial paradigm. This…

Analysis of 38 curriculum guides suggests the pace of change in English classrooms is slow and undramatic. (JH)

Examples of how Empire State College in New York uses learning contracts together with first results of students' evaluation of their use.

Briefly describes an instructional program based on the individual needs of students that was designed for grades K-8. (EB)

REPORTS ON PROCEDURES USED TO DISCOVER WHAT MODIFICATIONS WOULD MORE EFFECTIVELY PREPARE TEACHERS FOR WORK IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS WERE PRESENTED. A STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS OF BEGINNING TEACHERS IN A DEPRESSED-AREA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SHOWED THAT PROBLEMS AROSE FROM THE TEACHERS' LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF LOWER CLASS…

The intent of this booklet is to stimulate interest in individualized education, to promote study of it, and to encourage educators to experiment with the idea in ways appropriate to their local situations. Chapter 1 analyzes the concept of individualization. The chapter includes paradigms that may be helpful for examining some of the current…

At Coffee High School in Douglas, Georgia, a needs assessment committee recommended the replacement of the traditional nine-month program with a quarter system using longer class sessions and allowing more individual attention. The committee members chose the Better Learning Opportunities for Children (BLOC) Program. Implementation involved…

As a resource to the instructors of nursing science at West Valley College, Saratoga, California, an instructional developer served three important roles. As a teacher, he provided encouragement and background information; as a facilitator, he asked questions which clarified the tasks necessary to develop curriculum; and as a counselor, he…

A business statistics course based on audiotutorial instructional resources is described. The course, taught at Metro State College in Denver, Colorado, consisted of 13 modules which a student normally could complete in seven weeks or less. A feature of the course was a set of incentives to prevent students from procrastinating their completion of…

The author's primary objective is to present a conceptual model of individualization to (a) provide a common parlance applicable to various perceptions of individualization, (b) provide a model which can be empirically validated and subsequently utilized to measure, evaluate, and generate further research in the area of individualization, and (c)…

Between May 1967 and June 1970, the Houston Independent School District in consortium with 14 others contracted with USOE to coordinate the development of an organic curriculum. The project's purpose was to create a climate for change, while interpreting for Houston secondary schools the objectives of a plan that would be: relevant, based on…