Innovative Staffing for More Personalized Learning

Jun 5, 2018, 4:45 PM

(from the Christensen Institute) The Christensen Institute recently released a white paper based on research at eight school networks that outlines best practices in personalized learning, blended learning and non-traditional classroom staffing arrangements. Key elements of the innovative staffing models studied include:

New roles for educators, often as part of a career path allowing development and support. Roles include teacher-leaders of small instructional teams, collaborating teachers, support staff and teachers-in-training.
Intensive collaboration among small teaching teams.
Cultures of intensive coaching, with weekly or even daily observations and feedback.
Paid fellowships and residencies that enable schools to train their own teachers, building the pipeline of future educators.

With staffing arrangements that supported increased small-group and online study, students had more opportunities to work on individualized, self-paced instruction.