Reviews

Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom by Greg Curtis, Allison Zmuda, Diane Ullman

amyextradot's review

3.0

This book had it all--research-based reasoning for why the shift in making learning personalized for all students makes sense, lots of support from the ed-gurus, and finally (what I think was the best part) there are multiple concrete examples that teachers can start using right away. Great read!

melodyriggs's review

3.0

I didn't enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed George Couros' The Innovator's Mindset (another book that a group of educators at my school read). This book had great ideas for personalizing learning in the classroom, but I found it to be really overwhelming. Basically, everything in this book with personalized learning is what I feel like would happen in an ideal situation in a school where teachers have complete freedom to design instruction as they see fit. And maybe we are headed that way, but we are a long way from that. So while I found there to be some encouraging ideas for starting to integrate more personalized learning in my classroom, I also found the overall big picture to be overwhelming and not quite realistic for where my district (and where I think a lot of U.S. public school districts are). We can certainly begin advocating for change, but there is a lot to be done to completely overhaul the way we think about education and personalized learning.