Individualized Instruction : Instructional Method That Personalizes the Instruction to the Needs and Learning Style of the Learner

NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

A TERM PAPER

PRESENTED BY

NAME REG. NO DEPT.

OKAFOR MARY IFEYINWA 2012606014F PHY EDU

EJIOGU JUDITH CHINYERE 2012606058F BIO EDU

OKONKWO CHISOM 2012606001F BIO EDU

TOPIC: INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION

COURSE CODE: SED 615

COURSE TITLE: METHOD IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

PROGRAMME: MASTERS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

LECTURER: PROF. E. AKUEZILO

DATE: JANUARY, 2014

INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION

INTRODUCTION

An instruction

An instruction is a statement that describes how to do something, an order or command; the action or process of teaching.

It is also the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education, knowledge or information imparted.

WHAT THEN IS INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION?

Individualized instruction is an instructional method that personalizes the instruction to the needs and learning style of the learner.

This is done by varying the pace of instruction, the method of learning employed and the content to be learned. Individualized instruction is not the same as one to one instruction. It is simply varying the process to meet the needs of each individual learner in the group.

Individualized instruction consists of any steps taken in planning and conducting programs of studies and lessons that suit them to the individual student’s learning needs, learning readiness, and learner characteristics or learning style”.

Learning needs can be identified with the grade level curriculum or they can be seen as reflecting individual experiences and interest.

ANOTHER DEFINITION OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION

It refers to those classroom practices of teaching which recognize the uniqueness of each student learner and thus provide for adequate tutorial guidance, and other support services suited to bring and a whole some development in the person (mind, body and spirit).

Individualized instruction is about using...