I first heard about personalized learning during a meeting with my former principal. He began talking about how the district was looking into moving towards personalized learning through a blended learning model, and all I thought was, “Oh, this is just another educational fad.”
Fast forward a few weeks and conversations later, and the excitement had become contagious. I found myself yearning to see just what this craze was all about.
First I took to Google and through my searching got many different ideas of what blended learning looks like in a first-grade classroom. To sift through it all, I set up a meeting with the school instructional specialist and she told me about Coursera, an online resource with free classes and videos for educators about blended learning. I loved seeing what this teaching method actually looked like in a REAL classroom.
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