5.3.4 Individualized Learning

Another problem we have is that individualized learning is difficult. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that people learn in different ways. Because people learn in different ways we ought to have opportunities for individualized learning. Some people learn slower, some people learn faster. Some people have different styles of learning. We know that some people are visual learners and some are verbal. We ought to have the opportunity to provide differentstimuli or multi media stimuli for students to assist in their learning process. But the rigid schedule of schools don't really allow for individualization. One of the places where this becomes really sad is that you as a teacher, you're going to be dealing with 25 or 30 kids in a classroom. Let's say you're really good and as a result of being a really good teacher you diagnose your students in terms of their individual problems. Now that you've done that, how can you help them? You still have 29 other students. Where do you park the other students when you're giving individual
attention? The way that the schedule and the organization of school is set up it doesn't encourage individualized learning. I would argue that that is very different than ideal.

	Why should opportunities for individualized learning be available to children?	Answer Here
	Mr. Parker teaches Algebra IA and Algebra IB, a two-semester introductory course to high-school mathematics. He teaches a wide range of students (some freshmen, some sophomores, and a few juniors) and all of them learn differently. How can Mr. Parker somewhat individualize the learning of his course's contents for each student that asks for assistance?	Answer Here