Individual Education Planning (IEP): Equipping Teachers in Addressing Learners¿ Diversity

Individual Education Plan (IEP) has been in the educational setting since 2001 and was popularized by United Kingdom and Canada. It began with the concept of bringing education to special children who have specific needs, and later was adopted by institutions as strategy of meeting different needs of learners. It¿s a strategy of bringing individual education to each learner through compilation of information and records of dealings between teacher, parents and learner. With the onset of the new Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers last 2018, the challenge of addressing learners¿ diversity and collaborating with parents to attain utmost learning experience from the students was laid down. This book was written to explore the benefit of using individual education planning to the performance of learners in school. Particularly, the author wanted to build on home visitation, learner¿s cardex of needs-progress-achievement, and homeroom guidance program as three ensuring ways of constructing profile to possibly address learners¿ diversity.