Every student in a classroom has unique knowledge, strengths, and deficiencies within every subject area. Efficiently meeting these unique needs in a classroom of 25 students and guiding each and every student to his or her next learning step can appear logistically very challenging. This can influence teachers to focus on a particular need group, instead of all the individuals within the class. The goal of implementing MAP Directed Instruction (MDI) at a school is to effectively meet all these individual students' needs and guide their learning at a rate that is more appropriate for them.
Simply put, MDI is a framework for improving student achievement. MDI incorporates students' MAP test scores and corresponding DesCartes guidelines as a roadmap for building a customized curriculum for each student. In this way, MDI creates dynamic, practice-based classes for each student at a level that best suits his or her learning needs. MDI is not teaching to the test, but rather using test results to improve our approach towards teaching. With MDI, educators and administrators can target all students. No one gets left out, no one is out of place. MDI provides the logistics for fluid, need-based learning groups. With specific, goal-oriented instruction, MDI ensures that curriculum is appropriate and allows for adequate growth for all students in all areas.
Using MAP testing data the following criteria can be varied for each MDI session: topic of discussion, skill being practiced within the topic, classmates, age range within the classroom, and the instructor. With so much flexibility, MDI may be easily tailored to fit the resources and goals of one's particular learning community. It may also be set up in all schools as a practical and efficient way to ensure that we as educators and administrators are meeting the needs of all learners in their various stages of development - that is, "taking the correct next steps."
Every student in a classroom has unique knowledge, strengths, and deficiencies within every subject area. Efficiently meeting these unique needs in a classroom of 25 students and guiding each and every student to his or her next learning step can appear logistically very challenging. This can influence teachers to focus on a particular need group, instead of all the individuals within the class. The goal of implementing MAP Directed Instruction (MDI) at a school is to effectively meet all these individual students' needs and guide their learning at a rate that is more appropriate for them. 
Simply put, MDI is a framework for improving student achievement. MDI incorporates students' MAP test scores and corresponding DesCartes guidelines as a roadmap for building a customized curriculum for each student. In this way, MDI creates dynamic, practice-based classes for each student at a level that best suits his or her learning needs. MDI is not teaching to the test, but rather using test results to improve our approach towards teaching. With MDI, educators and administrators can target all students. No one gets left out, no one is out of place. MDI provides the logistics for fluid, need-based learning groups. With specific, goal-oriented instruction, MDI ensures that curriculum is appropriate and allows for adequate growth for all students in all areas.
Using MAP testing data the following criteria can be varied for each MDI session: topic of discussion, skill being practiced within the topic, classmates, age range within the classroom, and the instructor. With so much flexibility, MDI may be easily tailored to fit the resources and goals of one's particular learning community. It may also be set up in all schools as a practical and efficient way to ensure that we as educators and administrators are meeting the needs of all learners in their various stages of development - that is, "taking the correct next steps."