Adaptive instruction want to design the environment of accommodative individualized difference. Each student can development his potential by tailored teaching. This paper describes the development of implementing adaptive instruction. There were three stages as follows, before the 1950s, the 1950s to the 1980s and after the 1980s. Then this paper discusses the issues and prospects of adaptive instruction as follows: understanding the students’ individualized differences, the high cognitive level curriculum and the flexible instruction, the flexible student groups, the authentic instruction assessment, the multiple instruction, new technology and digital media, and school leadership and professional collaboration. The idea of adaptive instruction will succeed by means of those ways. |