Mentoring feeds personalized learning success
Summit Learning’s personalized learning platform lets students split their time between working on group projects and completing lessons on computers, but the most important component of its strategy is a heavy dose of one-on-one communication between students and teachers, Chalkbeat reports.The platform, developed with the help of Facebook engineers and backed by Mark Zuckerberg, is free for schools. Developers completed its mentoring component in the summer of 2018 by adding a tool that lets teachers automatically schedule time with students, including an agenda to help structure the one-on-one time.
The platform’s focus on mentoring is part of an industry shift away from a tech-only approach. The tool creates a structure for teachers to enter mentoring notes and ensures schedules include adequate mentoring time.
