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    • Key components of personalised learning
      • Teaching and learning strategies
        
        • Making it happen

Teaching and learning strategies

One of the most challenging aspects of personalising learning is the movement from the (stereotypical) generic approach to teaching to the facilitation of the learning of the individual.

The issues in this context can be summarised as:

• What is to be learnt?
• How is it to be learnt?
• When is it to be learnt?
• Where is it to be learnt?
• Who is it to be learnt with?

"Personalised learning demands teaching and learning strategies that develop the competence and confidence of every learner by actively engaging and stretching them.

"For teachers, it means a focus on their repertoire of teaching skills, their subject specialisms and their management of the learning experience. Personalised learning requires a range of whole class, group and individual teaching, learning and ICT strategies to transmit knowledge, to instil key learning skills and to accommodate different paces of learning." (DCSF)

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Examples of practice

• Case studies providing practical examples of how leaders are putting the ideas behind personalising learning into practice

Making it happen

• Practical activities to review this topic.

Reflective questions

Q: How often do leaders in your school ask the five questions above?

Q: How does leadership enable staff to have the data, information and tracking systems to know what each pupil can do and what they find difficult?

Q: In what ways does leadership support staff in adapting the curriculum to suit the individual needs and interests of all learners?

Q: How do leaders ensure that teaching and learning reflects the five points for pupils to consider, above?

Q: How does leadership respond when pupils become disengaged?

Leadership for personalising learning: a framework

Key components of personalised learning	Management for personalised learning	Leadership for personalised learning
Learning how to learn Assessment for learning Teaching and learning strategies Curriculum choice Mentoring and support	Minimising within-school variation Student choice and voice Information and communications technology (ICT) School systems and structures	Culture and values Learning-centred leadership Distributed leadership Networks and partnerships Leading change