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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Challenge accepted: Individualized teaching

I'm not well familiar with the concept of Individualized teaching and learning. However, I do know it should be about customizing the teaching process, in order for it to meet the needs of all the students in the classroom.

In the school I work in, there is quite a number of such students who require an individualized approach. Some need more help, whereas other need less.
For instance, in the first grade, there is a Roma boy and a few others, who barely write in  Serbian and speak extremely poor English. With such students, the progress is minor, but there is some.
Then again, there is a class of second-graders with five such students (and that class soon came to be my worst nightmare), who not only require special approach in terms of learning English, but also with the discipline and behaviour in class.
When it comes to third- and fourth-graders, I must say it is much easier to work with and there are by far better chances that they will learn some proper English.

The materials I prepare for the students who require an individualized approach are mostly colouring pages I adapt from Google image search, empty sheets of paper for drawing or writing I cut and distribute, some flash cards I make myself, and chunks of text for the students to copy.

What do you think, is this a good way to individualize the teaching process? What else could I do?