Writing can be a powerful tool for thinking and learning. Journaling is one form of writing that is a commonly used learning tool in many classrooms. Children use journals to record personal experiences, explore reactions and interpretations to reading and videos, or record, analyze, or enhance information about literature or other subject areas.…

Adapting support contingently to student needs by first diagnosing their current understanding, that is, scaffolding, is considered a key aspect of excellent teaching. The use of classroom scaffolding is rare, however. We therefore investigated the benefits to teachers of a professional development program that was based upon a model of contingent…

With the advent of "Response to Intervention" there has been emphasis on preventing reading disabilities. This study examined the effectiveness of a classroom teacher Tier II intervention for struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade called the Targeted Reading Intervention. Three rural schools were randomly assigned to…

Mainstreaming of handicapped children in regular classes requires the stretching of normal individualized teaching methods to include meeting the needs of handicapped or gifted learners. A learning loop consisting of diagnosis, educational prescription, instruction, and evaluation should be applied. Instructional strategies appropriate for both…

Author suggests some new ways to help solve learning problems in the classroom. (GB)

Mastery learning, an approach originated by B. Bloom and based on formative testing to give the student feedback and correction, is advocated as an effective way to individualize instruction in a mainstreamed setting. (CL)

Designed to provide information about what 46 innovative schools (K-12) have done in individualizing instruction, this manual for school administrators, using examples from the 46 schools, opens with a chapter on how individualized instruction differs from traditional instruction. Successive chapters, also using the schools as evidence, focus on…

Presented to provide an idea of the best ERIC documents available on individualized learning, this paper contains a collection of over 100 reports and papers that were put into ERIC in the last two or three years. The listings have been categorized topically, and each entry is provided with an ED number and ordering and price information. The…

Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17-19, 1969). (JJ)

In recent years, higher education has been subject to the criticism that the pervasive lecture method is impersonal and ineffective. The individualization of instruction using instructional technology can help to answer that criticism by facilitating the optimal combination of professor-determined objectives and processes with student-determined…

Diagnosis is discussed as it applies to individualized and/or diagnostic instruction. (JT)

A precision teaching software approach to individualized sign language instruction for hearing impaired students has been developed that incorporates self control of learning and immediate feedback on error patterns. A simulated interaction is presented to illustrate the approach. (CL)

In teaching mathematics, diagnosis should form the basis of any instructional plan and is essential in an individualized approach. (Author)

The process of diagnosis in education is basically a process of needs assessment and of finding ways of meeting the needs of the learner thus identified. The model described suggests that the basis for this process is three elements: (a) the needs of the students; (b) structure of the learning program; (c) placement data regarding the individual…

This article views differentiation as the process of identifying, with each learner, the most effective strategies for achieving agreed targets. It presents 10 elements of differentiation in special education, such as differentiation is multidimensional; differentiation is diagnostic; differentiation challenges classroom relationships; and…