Personalised learning project
Presentation to Colleges – Colegau Cymru Network meeting – Nov 4th 2014
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Transfer of Innovation
Project - mapping
involving:
HAMK – vocational teacher training
university in Hameelinna, Finland
Mercantec, Jutland, Denmark and
the Danish Government
ROC West Brebant, Netherlands
Slovenian Ministry of Education
Coleg Cambria
http://www.teaching-map.eu/
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The project aims to support individual study planning in VET.
Products:
MAP – principles which develop individualised learning
teacher training unit: Mooc & CPD units to develop innovative
approaches
multimedia documentation – case studies of best practice
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Activities
Developed observation grid to evaluate the good practice in the
two countries of knowledge transfer:
• Denmark
• Finland
http://www.teaching-map.eu/outcomes/mapping-quality-grid/
Under took observations and interviews with students, teachers
and managers in both countries and defined what individualised
study planning meant to us based on best practice.
Highly influenced by this research:
http://www.slideshare.net/barbarabray1/pdi-v3-2
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Key findings - Denmark
Use of monitoring,
ILP, marking &
feedback software
for teachers,
learners, employers,
parents - Elevplan
Individualised task choice
with common assessment
goals, lots of independent
learning in spaces around
the classroom – little
didactic teaching, more
project based task
development
Every learner brought
their own laptop to class,
enabled independent
learning
When learning topics, learners
could choose to stay and learn
didactically or go off and do
work independently and then
seek help when stuck differentiation
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Key findings - Finland
More structured in
terms of task setting
– but high levels of
differentiation with
individual learning
planning – pace of
learning and units
chosen
Lots of blended
learning opportunities
for selected units – use
of social media to
develop learning
communities l
Very high quality teacher
training focussing on active
learning methods and learning
technologies
Vocational learning as academic
learning – e.g. agriculture and biosciences, study languages and
science alongside vocational
subjects
Not the option for less able
learners
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Outcomes
Bought Promonitor
Tool for student
tracking
teach smarter, learn better
approaches – Schemes of
learning,
More flexible teaching and task
design, project based approaches
Learning activities resource bank
Prep & flipped classrooms
Peer assessment & A for L
Further developing
online communities –
Google communities and
Google classroom
Promoting independent
learning skills based on
‘personalisation’ and
improving differentiationg
Using blogs and social
media tools for
learners to develop
literacy skills and
evidence technical
skills development
Strong focus on high
quality teacher training
as a corporate
programme to develop
and share best practice
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Coleg Cambria’s Teaching and
Learning Strategy
Learner led
(personalised)
learning
+
Inspirational and
effective
teaching
=
Outstanding
progress
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Benefits of Euro projects…
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