Leading personalised learning
This section will help you bring personalised learning to life in your school. It draws out the key points from the Leadership for Personalising Learning framework, and includes video clips, case studies from schools and a variety of practical activities and tools to support you. The framework, which was developed by Professor John West-Burnham for the National College, summarises the arguments for moving towards personalised learning, outlines the main components of personalised learning, suggests the management issues and implications and summarises the role of leadership.
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About personalised learning
What is personalised learning and why personalise learning.
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Key components of personalised learning
Five key components enable pupils to be actively engaged in the management and design of their learning experiences.
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Management of personalised learning
Personalised learning requires effective structures and systems to support it, summarised in four strands of management activity.
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Leadership for personalised learning
Leadership for personalised learning draws on five strategies to help introduce and embed the necessary changes.
Publications
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Student-focused strategies: supporting achievement - summary
Research associate summary report looking at supporting achievement through student-focused strategies -
Student-focused strategies: supporting achievement - full report
Research associate full report looking at supporting achievement through student-focused strategies -
Ofsted in the context of CEIAG
The deputy head of Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, discusses the development of independent student learners in the wake of a recent Ofsted visit -
Personalised learning: reflections on an international visit to Brest, France
A group of school leaders set out to investigate aspects of personalised learning – how it is interpreted and implemented in the French curriculum, and to what extent students are involved in self-assessment. Part of the International Leadership Learning Programme. -
Equality, self-belief and choice - impartial careers education: implementing Principle 5
This booklet identifies leadership best practice from ten schools actively promoting equal opportunities and challenging stereotyping in line with Principle 5 of the DCSF's statutory guidance for impartial careers education
Case studies
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The Wroxham School
National College resources: leading personalised learning. Using personalised learning to move from special measures to outstanding: a case study. Learning without limits at The Wroxham School, Potters Bar. -
Mills Hill School
National College resources: leading personalised learning. Using personalised learning to ensure every child succeeds: a case study. Co-operative learning at Mills Hill Primary School, Oldham. -
Lawrence Sheriff School
National College resources: leading personalised learning. Using personalised learning to improve an already successful school: a case study. A challenge to the status quo at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. -
Kingfisher School
National College resources: leading personalised learning. Using personalised learning to create a culture of learning: a case study. Tailoring the learning to meet individual needs at the Kingfisher Community Special School, Oldham. -
Grange School
National College resources: leading personalised learning. Using personalised learning to revitalise a school in decline: a case study. A personal vision for change at Grange Primary School, Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Interactive resources
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Culture and values
National College resources: leadership for personalised learning nurtures a culture and secures a set of values focused on the learning of individual pupils. It establishes a shared commitment to the well-being of each individual, expressed through the five Every Child Matters (ECM) aims. -
Mentoring and support
National College resources: effective delivery of personalised learning is underpinned by long-term, one-to-one mentoring relationships, which use and encourage high levels of interpersonal skills, as well as offering adult challenge and support. -
Distributed leadership
National College resources that suggests that pupils' learning is improved if leadership is seen as a collective capacity across the school rather than as the personal status of a few individuals. -
Learning-centred leadership
National College resources: leaders of personalised learning need to be endlessly fascinated by learning and pedagogy, whilst also being open to new ways of thinking. -
Assessment for learning
National College resources that examine how - in the context of personalising learning - assessment becomes formative and summative and is extended from assessment of learning to assessment as and for learning.
Articles
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Culture and values
National College resources: leadership for personalised learning nurtures a culture and secures a set of values focused on the learning of individual pupils. It establishes a shared commitment to the well-being of each individual, expressed through the five Every Child Matters (ECM) aims. -
Mentoring and support
National College resources: effective delivery of personalised learning is underpinned by long-term, one-to-one mentoring relationships, which use and encourage high levels of interpersonal skills, as well as offering adult challenge and support. -
Distributed leadership
National College resources that suggests that pupils' learning is improved if leadership is seen as a collective capacity across the school rather than as the personal status of a few individuals. -
Learning-centred leadership
National College resources: leaders of personalised learning need to be endlessly fascinated by learning and pedagogy, whilst also being open to new ways of thinking. -
Assessment for learning
National College resources that examine how - in the context of personalising learning - assessment becomes formative and summative and is extended from assessment of learning to assessment as and for learning.

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