Subject: The forgotten one...

Posted by Bob Gorman on 12/27/2010
In Reply To:The forgotten one... Posted by Philip Abode on 12/27/2010

Message:

Philip,
One method I found useful while teaching at-risk adolescents was the ILP.
Many traditional classrooms assume, wrongly, that all students learn the same way. So many students hobble by, passing tests but having little to no confidence in what they learned, and hence unable to apply their learnings in their lives.

Those who are either far behind or far ahead of the bell curve, are treated as individuals and given an IEP. The traditional IEP (Individual Educational Plan) was created to document What the educational establishment, (teachers, principal, administration, guidance counselor, & parents) want in terms of an individual student's knowledge and/or behaviors and also How to measure that achievement. The student in this process is typically a passive pawn; s/he has little to no desire to work towards these enforced goals.

To focus on 'the forgotten ones' I created an ILP or Individual Learning Plan. Briefly, it is a document that a learner creates which is his/her plan for how to best learn a specific subject or topic that they are passionate about learning.

Details at: http://www.kncell.org/ILP.html

Bob