An Individualized Curriculum is a course of study designed specifically for each individual student. In a typical large-class setting with 25-35 pupils, students are forced to work at the pace and intensity of the majority of the group.
What is individualization in the curriculum?
Individualization Based on Interests: The curriculum provides minimal guidance on how to plan learning experiences that build on children's interests. The Teacher's Handbook explains that children may have specific interests and encourages teachers to "pick up on these interests and use them to engage children."
What is individualized learning (Il)?
Individualized learning, or individualized instruction, is a method of teaching in which content, instructional technology, and pace of learning are based upon the abilities and interest of each learner.
What is the purpose of the curriculum?
It recommends children have daily opportunities to engage in child-initiated activities. The curriculum promotes teachers' use of observation to document children's interests and to plan learning experiences. Even so, the curriculum provides no guidance on how to plan learning experiences based on individual children's interests.
Is the curriculum pre-planned?
However, other activities in the curriculum are pre-planned (e.g., Story Lab activities, Math and Science activities), and there is no guidance in on how to plan learning experiences based on the interests of individual children.
Elective Experiences
Our residents’ goals are as unique and diverse as they are. Our approach to electives provides flexibility to build a curriculum that matches each individual’s personal and professional goals. We offer over 40 unique elective experiences from which residents can choose as they develop their personalized curriculum.
Individualized Curriculum Examples
So what does an individualized curriculum actually look like? See some selected examples of how our current residents and recent graduates have built unique and diverse training experiences during residency based on their career interests and plans.
What You'll Study
The Individualized Curriculum Program (ICP) is designed for the serious student whose educational goals aren't served by existing majors. It's a program that allows students, with the assistance of a faculty committee, to create unique interdisciplinary majors.
One More Thing
"The opportunity to create my own ICP has been extremely beneficial to my undergraduate studies and future career path after graduation. My ICP has allowed me to cross disciplines, allowing me to create contacts in multiple departments, and conduct interdisciplinary research.
What is learning experience?
Learning experiences are pre-planned, and there is no guidance on how to modify them based on individual children's interests. Individualization Based on Strengths and Needs: The curriculum provides a variety of strategies to make learning experiences responsive to individual children's strengths and needs.
What is curiosity corner?
Individualization Based on Strengths and Needs: Curiosity Corner provides minimal guidance on how to make learning experiences responsive to individual children's strengths and needs. Each Learning Lab includes a facilitation guide that contains questions that can be asked to engage children at any developmental level. However, the curriculum lacks guidance on how to modify most learning experiences (e.g., Clues & Questions, STaR, Math Moments) to be responsive to individual children's strengths and needs.
What is individualization based on strengths and needs?
Individualization Based on Strengths and Needs: Volume 1: The Foundation provides an overview of how individualization is central to the curriculum's philosophy. Teachers are encouraged to "Observe-Reflect-Respond," which is one way of responding to children's individual strengths and needs. Furthermore, the Intentional Teaching Cards provide specific scaffolding strategies to support children at different levels of a developmental progression. This allows teachers to individualize learning experiences to meet children's strengths and needs.
How to individualize a child's learning?
The Units offer ways to individualize through "More Support" and "More Challenge" prompts for Small Group lessons. In addition, Welcome and Read Aloud lessons suggest ways to individualize for children who need more support (e.g., have them think about what helps them feel better when they are sad or upset, and then extend that idea to helping a friend).
What is the scope of curriculum?
Scope and Sequence. The curriculum offers guidance on how to individualize based on children's interests, strengths, and needs. Individualization is a process of planning and implementing learning experiences that are responsive to each child's interests, strengths, and needs. Teachers reflect on their observations of each child and then plan ...
What is frog street threes?
Individualization Based on Interests: Welcome to Frog Street Threes discusses the importance of following children's interests (e.g., invite children to choose books; if a child shows an interest in bugs, take them outside to search for crawling critters). Occasionally, the curriculum's learning activities or practice centers invite children to share their curiosities and wonderings. However, the curriculum does not offer guidance on how to plan learning experiences that build on individual children's interests. Learning experiences are preplanned and there is no guidance on how to modify them based on individual children's interests.
What is individualization based on?
Individualization Based on Interests: The curriculum provides minimal guidance on how to plan learning experiences that build on children's interests . The Teacher's Handbook explains that children may have specific interests and encourages teachers to "pick up on these interests and use them to engage children.".
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Elective Experiences
- Our residents’ goals are as unique and diverse as they are. Our approach to electives provides flexibility to build a curriculum that matches each individual’s personal and professional goals. We offer over 40 unique elective experiences from which residents can choose as they develop their personalized curriculum. Take a peek at our recent course catalog by clicking the link below. Ma…
Individualized Curriculum Examples
- So what does an individualized curriculum actually look like? See some selected examples of how our current residents and recent graduates have built unique and diverse training experiences during residency based on their career interests and plans. Katherine Maddox, MD (class of 2016) General Pediatrics, Complex and Chronic Care Melody Munoz, MD (class of 2017) General Pedia…