Personalized Instruction

James W. Keefe, former director of research for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, is an educational consultant and writer, and president of the Learning Environments Consortium International (LEC), a non-profit forum of professors and practitioners committed to systemic school design and the personalization of learning and instruction. He was a high school assistant principal and principal in Downey, California and taught at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University, both in Los Angeles. John M. Jenkins is vice president of the Learning Environments Consortium International (LEC). He was a high school principal for more than four decades and served as the director of the P.K. Yonge Development Research School on the campus of the University of Florida where he also taught graduate courses in school leadership.

• Chapter 1 The School Learning EnvironmentChapter 2 Basic Elements of Personalized Instruction: CultureChapter 3 Basic Elements of Personalized Instruction: ContextChapter 4 Strategies and Tactics for Personalizing InstructionChapter 5 Authentic Assessment and Progress ReportingChapter 6 Personalizing the DisciplinesChapter 7 The Structure and Organization of Personalization

Personalized education can solve most of the instructional issues occurring in North American schools. Many of the programs suggested in Personalized Instruction: Key to Student Achievement have been operating successfully in school environments for over thirty years. All students could be successful if educators would commit themselves and their schools to personalized education as outlined in this book.