The Personalized Teaching Conference to Promote Personalized Learning
The Personalized Learning Conference is an event that spotlights the importance of personalized learning and helps educators begin their journey towards personalizing education for every student.
An Opportunity for Choice
An important component of personalized learning is choice in how something is learned. We want to share and model this for attendees of the Personalized Learning Conference. At this event, there will be over 30 unique sessions. Each of these sessions focuses on one (or more) of nine different personalized learning strands, which include:
- Student agency
- Differentiated instruction
- Immediate instructional interventions and supports for each student is on-demand, when needed
- Flexible pacing
- Individual student profiles (personalized learning plans)
- Deeper learning and problem solving to develop meaning
- Frequent feedback from instructors and peers
- Standards-based, world-class knowledge and skills
- Anywhere, anytime learning
- Performance-based assessments (project-based learning, portfolios, etc.)*
*List adopted from iNACOL's Elements of Personalized Learning
Conference sessions will be presented in a variety of ways, which will allow attendees to quickly gather information and/or dive deeply into a topic of interest. There are three types of session formats:
35-minute Information Sessions
35-minute Information Sessions
- Information sessions are quick sessions that focus on one or two topics. They are designed so that attendees can quickly learn about new research, tools, and/or ideas. Presenters will share additional resources so that attendees can further explore the topics presented in these sessions.
- Roundtable discussions are not presentations. They are opportunities for educators to discuss topics that are important to them. Each discussion will be facilitated by a moderator, who will help structure and guide conversations (as needed) so that all participants can gain common understandings and leave with actionable ideas.
- Breakout sessions are meant for those who want to dive deeply into a specific topic. Many of these sessions will be hands-on and allow participants to explore new tools and/or ideas. Other sessions will provide detailed overviews of research and/or ideas along with steps to follow for utilizing this information in a classroom, school, and/or district.
A Personalized Conference for Attendees
Ever attend a conference where there were multiple sessions you wanted to attend, but they were all offered at the same time? We hope to fix this at the Personalized Learning Conference. Leading up to this event, registered attendees will be given the opportunity to rate their level of interest in each session. This information will be used to create a schedule personalized for conference attendees. Through this structure, we hope to provide all attendees with sessions that are of interest to them throughout the day, as well as reduce overlap of sessions that are of greatest interest to attendees.
Time and Location
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The Personalized Learning Conference will be held at the Kent ISD Educational Service Center on May 7, 2019 from 8:15AM - 3:30PM.
Conference Schedule Time Event 8:15AM Conference Kickoff 9:25AM Conference Sessions 10:10AM Conference Sessions 10:55AM Conference Sessions 11:30AM Lunch (Provided) 12:15PM Keynote 1:25PM Conference Sessions 2:10PM Conference Sessions 2:55PM Conference Sessions 3:30PM End of Conference |
Kent ISD Educational Service Center
2930 Knapp Street NE Grand Rapids, MI 49525 |