Personalised Learning
Putting the learner at the heart
of the education system
Donna Wood
What is fundamentally different in
personalised learning is the
transfer of power and responsibility
for learning away from the teacher
towards the learner.
‘Moving from Satisfactory to
Superb’
• Responding to the needs of the whole
person
• Creating an ethos of seeking and
responding to the views of the learner
• Raising the ambitions of all learners
• Supporting every learner to become
expert
• Encouraging individuals to take
responsibility
What information do I need about
the learner?
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their individual needs
their talents
their preferred learning styles
their personal interests.
Responding effectively to this
information is the key to giving learners
the opportunity to achieve to their full
potential.
How am I going to use the
information?
• Setting personal targets
• regularly monitoring learners’ performance
against these targets
• trying to match learning styles to each
individual need and personal pace of
learning
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of personalised learning
Personalised Learning is about..
• focusing on personalising teaching to meet the
aptitudes and interests of the learner
• responding to the different ways learners
achieve their best
• identifying individual needs and preferred
learning styles
• undertaking assessment for learning
• tailoring education in a way that bests ensures
every learner achieves the highest possible
standard
Personalised Learning is about..
• encouraging learners to engage in critical
self-assessment
• setting individual learning targets and
regularly reviewing progress
• providing structured feedback and
teaching learners how to use it to improve
their work
• raising standards of learning and teaching
Personalised Learning is not about..
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expecting learners to learn on their own
abandoning the Curriculum
allowing learners to do their own thing
permitting learners to coast at their own
pace.
Activity 1
• What do I currently do that could be considered
Personalised Learning?
• How could I improve current practice to reflect
a Personalised Learning approach?
Activity 2
• Skills I need
• analysing and using data, with a specific focus on
assessment for learning
• understanding how we learn and develop
• engaging pupils as active participants in learning
• Skills I have
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Five key elements of personalised
learning
1. Assessment for Learning
2. Effective Teaching and Learning
strategies
3. Curriculum Entitlement and Choice
4. School/College Organisation
5. Partnership
Activity 3
• In mixed curriculum groups, agree 5 examples
of how you would provide evidence of a
personalised learning approach in your lessons
that would be identifiable through lesson
observation
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Activity 4
• VIDEO 1
• In this programme, we see advanced skills teacher
Sue Prichard teaching two Year 10 German classes
using personalised learning techniques.
• In the first lesson we see her differentiate her lesson to
suit multiple ability levels. She hands out more advanced
tasks to the more able students while continuing to
support the lower-ability pupils. She also uses data
collected from a learning skills questionnaire to give her
lessons the right mix of auditory, kinaesthetic and visual
material designed to suit her pupils.
What is Personalised Learning?
• In the second lesson, we see Sue provide
a personalised learning experience for
Victor, a boy who has been previously
excluded. We see how Sue considers
about his learning needs and then designs
customised tasks and activities so he can
function well with the rest of the class.
• VIDEO 1.wmv