Next Steps In The Journey: Personalizing Our Teaching: No Specific Human Being Left Behind

Recognizing the challenge of individualizing instruction, Wilhelm reminds us of some specific areas teachers must focus on: developing apprenticeship and inquiry settings in which student difference is a resource; connecting students to their reading and writing; honoring and using students’ first languages; situating instruction in real or simulated contexts where learning can be applied; using a variety of assessment practices. “This is our privilege and our purpose as teachers, and it is the only path to transformative teaching and learning.”