Personalized Learning
The Talent Development Model
Our mission, to equip children for a life of becoming, requires individualized and personalized teaching and learning. Birchwood’s mission implies intellectual and character growth. Hence, all school, classroom, and organizational arrangements should be aligned with individual growth. Individual growth is the plumb line for measuring our success.
The master-apprentice model of education, a description of the Natural Learning Model, provides guidance for this effort. The practical implementation of the master-apprentice model within a school setting is strengthened and clarified by our version of the Talent Development Model designed to usher children’s potential toward fruition.
The Talent Development Model as we define it at Birchwood helps us create a practical application of the master-apprentice model in the classroom. It delineates and articulates practical implications for individualized and personalized teaching and learning. It includes curriculum, pedagogy, classroom practices, material support, strategies for knowing children, and direction for professional development.
We invite you to learn more about the main features of this approach beginning with the meaning of the Talent Development Model of instruction and why we use it as a framework for individualized instruction:
The master-apprentice model of education, a description of the Natural Learning Model, provides guidance for this effort. The practical implementation of the master-apprentice model within a school setting is strengthened and clarified by our version of the Talent Development Model designed to usher children’s potential toward fruition.
The Talent Development Model as we define it at Birchwood helps us create a practical application of the master-apprentice model in the classroom. It delineates and articulates practical implications for individualized and personalized teaching and learning. It includes curriculum, pedagogy, classroom practices, material support, strategies for knowing children, and direction for professional development.
We invite you to learn more about the main features of this approach beginning with the meaning of the Talent Development Model of instruction and why we use it as a framework for individualized instruction:
List of 4 items.
-
An Overview
Birchwood’s Talent Development Model of education summarizes several classroom practices that guide our pedagogy. Historically, it is derived from the master-apprentice educational model.Read More -
Small Class Sizes
In Birchwood’s Talent Development Model, it is self-evident that classes must be small. Our experience suggests 13 to 15 students works.Read More -
High Ability Students
In the quest for individualized instruction, special attention must be given to high ability students.Read More -
Eclectic Approach to Pedagogy
Since individual growth is the plumb line for our success, pedagogy and the selection of learning materials is eclectic.Read More
List of 4 items.
-
Role of a Subject Specialist
At Birchwood, this journey toward the ideal begins with an institutional structure that frames the role of our teachers and defines their own development as a mentor-teacher.Read More -
Choice
As students enter the sixth grade, they are offered more opportunities to explore content more deeply or more broadly according to interest and aptitude.Read More -
Understand & Know Students
The more teachers know and understand each child, the better they can personalize instruction and learning.Read More -
Role of Professional Development
Teachers embrace our mission and the broad implications of how we grow children’s intellect and character through individualized instruction and learning.Read More
