Outmoded and Advanced Teaching and Learning

Kathleen Kristel M. Reyes

It’s a space for deeper into the questions and challenges that matter most to your blended-learning programs, whether they be updating professional development strategies, discovering the right learning platforms for students, tweaking your model, or experimenting with something completely different. Blended and personalized learning practices, as well as experts with years under their belt who can help and benefit from their unique experiences. Time and again, when we speak with school leaders about how they got started in blended and personalized learning, they say one of the most influential steps they took was visiting other schools. Of course, second to that are virtual connections that allow us to learn from another school’s practices. Educators who are in a similar phase of transformation as yourself as well as those who may have successfully advanced to another stage of blended learning. Educators stand to benefit from opportunities to connect across geographical boundaries to share stories and best practices, learn from each other, and help bridge the gap between traditional practice and innovative teaching and learning. That is why resource to learn about blended learning, but it’s also a growing hub of learning and practice for expert implementers. In a field aiming to shift educational practices from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age, educators on the ground today work in a distinctly brave new world. Leaders who are innovating around classroom instruction by adopting practices of blending and personalizing learning are still on the periphery of a system very much entrenched in a time-based world of education. At a time when the field is increasingly focused on transforming our educational model into one that personalizes learning for all students, blended learning, now more than ever, is poised to be a critical lever for schools to make new levels of personalization not just feasible but accessible.

The author

is Teacher

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III at Santa Rita Elementary School, Division of Pampanga