Blog #1 - Personalized Learning

Personalized learning is a collection of strategies that allow teachers to move away from a standardized educational model. The model that most interests me is Project Based Learning (PBL), I think that this strategy would help with some motivation and interest problems that I have in my 6th grade general music class. One of my power standards is to have students listen to and analyze music using the elements of music and their descriptors.

Using PBL, I students could begin with the driving question of "Why do I like this song?", then create scaffolding so that students can really dive into a certain genre and even a specific song, and use the elements of music to describe what they like about that song, using musically specific terms focusing on a musically vocabulary that will allow them to speak intelligently about music.  

Scaffolded projects could include vocabulary work, listening examples with example responses, quizzes, or essays etc. I think that this type of project would be a combination of the PBL model and the Blended Model.