Education personalization

The article I recently read and annotated goes into detail about how a more custom approach to education is better than a one-size-fit-all style of learning.  Ever since No Child Left Behind, standardized testing has taken away the personal aspects of education that are ever so important to learning.  Not all students are the same, and many of them can't learn from constant testing just to make sure we're on track.

The article explains how some schools have already taken steps to raise the personal level of teaching, such as school sponsored blogging, or working with individuals to teach them while keeping them focused the whole time.  The author of the article, Will Richardson, used an excellent example, where he used basketball to teach his son math.  He would use basketball examples to teach his son math equations, and that way, his son was both learning and having fun. 

Almost every student learns in a different way, and teachers and/or school systems have caught on to this and have started adding more personal lesson plans, such as encouraging student blogs and interactive games.  Also, many students don't learn well with the typical lecture; instead, they need interactive ways of learning such as scavenger hunts or group activities in class to create a better learning experience.

This blog is already an example of a teacher adding a more personal aspect to the class, and many other teachers are doing the same things across the nation.  Every student is different, and it is not only the job of the teachers, but also the job of the student to identify how they learn the best and what they can do to learn as much as they can to prepare themselves for further education and eventually getting a job.