Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike. This book explores in 10 chapters how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms: (1) "Understanding…

The Personalized System of Instruction, devised by Keller and Sherman in the 1960's, is a course format that has been winning wide acceptance among university teachers in the past few years. In this article we indicate the main advantages that we see in the format, the modifications that we have made to adapt it to our needs, and some of the…

The School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado provides a place within the university structure where students can pursue innovative programs using the resources of the University, community, and state. (HMD)

A walking tour of a 535-student open plan elementary school. (HMD)

The personalizing of the Language Arts instructional program at the Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware is discussed in terms of a) department organization, b) classroom organization, c) instructional materials, and d) special considerations related to individualizing instruction. (HMD)

Describes a district in Minneapolis where students must choose either the contemporary or traditionally self-contained classroom school, the continuous progress school, the open school, or the free school. (GB)

Article discusses several indicators of individualization in an elementary school program that can boost student learning motivation. (GB)

Faculty members from Florida International University discuss the problems involved with the planning and implementation of its new school of technology. Information is given on the problems involved with program selection and operation, faculty recruitment, and student needs. (DS)

The Individual Physician Profile codifies patients' problems; the physician is tested on those problems; and, with additional personal information, consultation leads to a tailor-made educational program. (Editor)

Rejection of schools as impersonal processors of resigned children, badly prepared for an inscrutable society, is being accompanied by a return to local initiative and individual responsibility for education. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to provide sufficient information about the concept of individualized inservice education so that other administrators can organize such programs within their school systems. (Author)

Adapted from a speech given during the Seminar on Teacher Preparation at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, December 1971. (DS)

Abridged version of an address delivered on April 22, 1972, at the Annual Convention of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association in Toronto, Canada. (DS)

Briefly described are the operations of an elementary school learning center where students come and go as they like. "The only rule is that students must have and fulfill a purpose while in this area. Thus, the resource center is totally supportive of the nongraded individualized instructional program. (Author/LS)