ILP - Individual Learning Plan
A Learner's Declaration of Independence
Over & above test scores, I believe our most serious educational exposure is very simply - our youth, tomorrows leaders, have dropped out! Some physically, some mentally, and most psychologically. They no longer believe the educational system has their interests at heart an so they have, legitimately, turned their backs on us.
We cannot succeed, or even survive, without them!
My proposal to re-engage them is:
ILP - Individual Learning Plan
The goal of every class or tutoring session is that the student/learner learn something. If, for
whatever reason, that doesn't happen the learner goes forward into life less prepared for their Individual life.
Teachers may be upset, parents outraged, principals lose funding, school boards and even politicians disappointed but it is the student/learner and only the learner who suffers the most profound damage, loss of needed Knowledge, damage which could potentially last a lifetime.
And that learner is a crucial part of our democracy!
If he/she fails, we ALL fail.
Our nation can be no stronger than the Individuals that make it up.
Over the past 50+ years, thousands of 'professional educators' (teachers, principals, school boards, politicians and a host of academics) have forced hundreds of academic schemes on our children and current test scores indicate students in the United States now score LOWER in the critical life skills of reading, writing, & mathematical skills than they were decades ago.
Current Context:
We are now in a time of severe assault on our nation, our values & principles. This assault is not a war of planes, ships, & tanks, but an idea to idea clash - Individual to Individual. I see 2 main threats today: Radical Islamists, and Communists. I believe that when the Berlin wall came down in 1989, Communism did not go away, it simply went underground. Vladimir Putin, today, is as committed as Gorbachev ever was to destroying America
from within.
This is not an academic exercise.
The Radical Islamists have sworn to kill us and enforce Sharia law on us.
They truly mean it.
The Communists have vowed to destroy America from the inside, enabling them to take over our government, owning both our current wealth and the means of creating future wealth, and they have achieved about 90% of their goals. The liberal media, and most of academia, have already fallen victim to their manipulation, irrational and wishful thinking attacks. They have become what Lenin used to call 'useful idiots'. They cannot nor will not help us. They teach us to be sheep, to follow anyone anywhere without asking Why.
They truly mean it.
What can we do to both help our children/citizens and defend our nation against 2 very real threats?
My proposal to re-engage them is:
ILP - Individual Learning Plan
What is an ILP?
Briefly, it is a document, since 2010 2 documents, that a learner creates which is his/her plan for how to learn a specific subject or topic that they choose to learn about.
How does it differ from the traditional IEP?
The traditional IEP (Individual Educational Plan) was created to document
What the educational establishment, (teachers, principal, administration, guidance counselor, & parents) want in terms of an individual student's knowledge and/or behaviors and also
How to measure that achievement.
The student in this process is typically a passive pawn; s/he has little to no desire to work towards this enforced goal.
With the ILP the learner:
- Selects the subject/topic.
- Decides how much or little of that topic to learn.
- Determines how they will know when they have achieved the mastery they desire.
- Honor their style strengths, weaknesses, preferences,
& coping strategies.
Why an ILP?
- First & foremost to fully re-engage the learner in his/her own education.
By having a topic of his/her own personal choice, they have a personal stake in the educational process.
- To re-build self confidence in the learners own decisions and actions about what is best for them.
- To re-focus on the Individuals' Needs, Wants, Preferences & coping strategies as opposed the educational establishments' needs, wants, preferences & tyrannical coping strategies.
Who are ILPs designed for?
IEP's are reserved for students who are either way behind the academic bell curve, often labelled special ed students; and also for students way ahead of the academic bell curve, often labelled 'gifted'.
ILP's are absolutely for every Individual on the planet!
What is an ILP - in Detail?
An ILP is created to document:
- What the learner wants to master in terms of:
- Personal Passion - What uniquely drives this unique learner?
- Societal Context - What does the Individual feel is needed in his/her personal community?
- How much of each specific topic the learner wants to learn. (Including NON-Goals)
- Metrics - How the learner will measure if they have achieved what they sought.
- How he/she will go about learning & mastering it. (Style issues)
Who loves/hates the ILP?
Home school parents & children LOVE it. They've actually been doing it for decades, with no formal name for it, or guidelines for making it more effective.
Traditional hierarchical, control oriented schools HATE it -
"How dare students have Individual Needs, Wants & Preferences".
Comparison:
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IEP
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ILP
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Author
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School System
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Individual Learner
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Purposes
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Educational System Goals
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Learner's Goals
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Status
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Legal Document
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Personal Sanity Document
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For Whom?
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Certain students
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Everyone!
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Structure
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Goals & Metrics
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Goals & Metrics
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Process
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The IEP Meeting¹
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Personal Sessions
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Results
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The IEP Document¹
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The ILP Document²
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Metric
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Test Knowledge
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Test Capability
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¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualized_Education_Program
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ILP Templates
I will provide templates, guidelines, and assistance in developing effective ILPs (Individual Learning Plans) for all individuals. These are based on the accumulative best of many, many Individual efforts. However they are only guidelines, the ultimate choice of what to include and what to exclude is up to the Individual creating the plan.
Since 2010 I split the ILP into 2 types of support documents:
- ILP Topic Templates
You create one of these for every new learning experience you desire.
These examples are being upgraded and will be available soon.
- ILP Learner Templates
You only need to create 1 of these, for yourself, but you will modify it over time as you become more & more sensitive to your learning Strengths, Weaknesses, Preferences, and developing Coping Strategies.
These examples are being upgraded and will be available soon.
Implementation Sites:
- These are schools, Home School Parents, and Individuals who value having a personal learning compass sufficiently to create an ILP for themselves, their children and/or their students, monitor it's progress, and update it when necessary.
- They also, if an institution, commit to devote at least 10% of learning time to learner generated, rather than institution generated topics. This enables students to re-engage in the learning process.
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How can you help?
- Directly coach an Individual to create an ILP for creating and fulfilling his/her personal passion. (It's easy, I'll show you how!) The Individual could be You!
- Contacts - Forward this message to those Individuals you personally know who can make a significance difference.
- School Impact - propose these ideas to your local school districts.
- If you believe this approach will have both short & long term impact for our entire community, invest here in 'KnCell Technologies', the not-for-profit company I've set up to make this dream a reality for all of us:
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Last Updated: Saturday, Mar. 31, 2012 2:54 PM
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