Gone are the days when students would sit glued in their seats, listening to their teachers’ lectures for hours, and taking notes. What thrives today is a personalized learning experience.
What is a Personalized Learning Experience
A personalized learning experience, as the name suggests, is an approach to modifying and customising learning keeping in mind the interest, learning style and pace, skills, needs, strengths and weaknesses of the students. It aims at making learning better for everyone.
Every teacher should aim at providing a personalized learning experience in their classrooms. This article will help you by suggesting various ways for you to make learning personalized for your students.
Tips on How to Provide Personalized Learning Experience
1- Value Your Students
Your students should know that they are important; make them realize their worth. This is important because one of the goals of personalized learning is to engage students as much as possible in a classroom; it is the same in online teaching as well as in traditional classes. When students know that they are valued, they engage more in the class. They will put forward their point of view, problems and doubts without any hesitation. This will help you in finding out where your students need help, what changes you should make, etc.
2- Use Technology
The changes that technology has brought to the education industry are beyond words. With the coming up of apps for classroom, distance learning has become possible. Students can connect with teachers across the globe. Similarly, teachers can connect with teachers and share their experiences, make suggestions, etc. This helps you open up your perspectives and broaden your minds, learn new techniques and modify your teaching techniques to make learning better for students.
Use modern technological tools such as LMS, mobile apps, etc., to only teach but connect with your students, maintain records, assign work, make updates, etc. Apps for classrooms come with many features, students can also track their performance and progress and hence, self analyze. They can pause, play and rewind video lessons and hence, learn better.
3- Give Them Some Level of Authority
Let your students choose which topics they want to learn, when will be the best deadline for the assignment assigned, etc. When you give a little authoritative power to them, they tend to show much more interest in the class. You will also be able to figure out what will be good and what will not.
4- Taking Into Account The Individual Struggles of Students
Every student is different and so are their problems. Some might struggle with understanding even the simplest of topics while some understand a tough topic at once. Some may not have their basic concepts clear and hence, may struggle in understanding a topic related to it.
As a teacher, you should address the individual struggles of students and help them out in every possible way. This contributes to providing a better learning experience.
5- Take Feedback
Most teachers make the mistake of only giving feedback to the students and not taking feedback from them. To constantly improve and make learning better for the students, taking their feedback is crucial.
Final Thoughts
To provide a personalized learning experience to the students, you need to prioritize your students and constantly keep upgrading your teaching techniques.
