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Best Education Practice: Individual 
See below for: research findings about outreach with an individual.
For the Individual, the learning experience:
- Provides opportunities for extended effort and practice.
- Promotes active engagement and real world problem solving.
- Enables the learner to link new knowledge to their existing knowledge in meaningful ways.
- Presents a new behavior or skill by • Demonstrating its similarity to a current behavior or skill. • Relating the new behavior to current social practices. • Demonstrating ease of adoption in terms of time, effort and money.
- Builds thinking and reasoning skills – analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving – that learners can use to construct and apply their knowledge.
- Provides a nurturing context for learning, with attention to • Cultural or group background and influences • The physical environment • The use of tools or practices appropriate to learner skills and abilities.
- Relates to personal interests and provides for personal choice and control. (the learning experience is “learner centered”)
- Has a clear purpose with tightly focused outcomes and objectives
- Allows a learner to interact and collaborate with others on instructional tasks.
- Can be adapted to individual differences in learning strategies and approaches.
- Encourages the learner to set meaningful learning goals and to take personal responsibility for their own learning.
- Relates to the individual’s level of physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development.
- Builds on positive emotions, curiosity, enjoyment, and interest.
- Assesses the learner in order to set appropriately high and challengings standards.
