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Leadership for Personalising Learning

Becta Research Conference Exploring technology-enabled change in education

6 November 2008

Jill Ireson National College for school Leadership Research and Policy Focusing on the role technology can play in changing learning, teaching and leadership

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What is Personalised Learning ?

Personalising learning offers a portfolio of strategies which relate directly to the imperatives of Every Child Matters and tangible opportunities to address individual wellbeing, progress and achievement. At the same time it provides a focus on alternative strategies to raise attainment, secure performance and sustain school improvement

NCSL Leadership for Personalising Learning 2008.

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Leadership for Personalising Learning

The strategies and systems outlined in the framework are not unique

to personalisation; they are characteristic of effective leadership

and management in any context. What is significant is the way in which

they are focused on the learning of the individual

John West – Burnham

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Leadership for Personalising Learning survey

• In the survey personalising learning emerged as one of the top three most important government initiatives for school leaders.

• Two thirds of school leaders agree that they have a sound understanding of what ‘personalising learning’ means and how they can best lead it in their schools

• Assessment for learning’, ‘effective teaching and learning’ and ‘ focussing in a structured way on each child’s learning’ were the most commonly understood expressions of personalising learning with the first two being the priorities for implementation.

• 25% of leaders overall agreed that they don’t currently have a strategy for moving forwards on personalising learning

• Very few of those surveyed (9 per cent) made a direct link between personalised learning and the Every Child Matters outcomes.

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Leadership for Personalising Learning

A unique opportunity to :

• Raise attainment

• Secure performance

• Sustain school improvement An online resource to:

• help all school leaders embed personalising learning within their schools

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Central to the website is the Leadership for Personalising Learning Framework

Personalising learning :

Management Leadership

oLearning how to learn

oAssessment for learning

oTeaching and learning strategies

oCurriculum choice

oMentoring and support

oMinimizing within-school variation

oStudent voice and choice

oICT

oSchool systems and structures

oCulture and values

oLearning centred

oDistributed leadership

oNetworks and partnerships

oLeading change

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The website provides resources to supportschool leaders in applying the principles withinthe framework to the circumstances of their own schools

Case studies

Video clips / documentary

Toolkit of resources / activities

Leading Personalising Learning survey

Opportunities to contribute

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A range of voices

School leaders

Parents

Governors

Students

Community leaders

But the main voice is yours …..

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Leadership for Personalising Learning survey

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Leadership for Personalising Learning survey

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Leadership for Personalising Learning – what school leaders say

The NCSL Personalising Learning Framework encouraged me to reflect onthe considerable leadership practice that was already good in my school but also consider what and how we might improve to become even better

Using the NCSL Personalised Learning framework encouraged me to question the existing practice in my own school but also consider what it might look like in the future

The framework gives a clear structure and explains exactly what is meant by personalised learning

This is one of the most important educational frameworks to have emerged in the 21st century

The new framework offers the clearest understanding yet of how to develop personalised learning in our schools

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• www.ncsl.org.uk / personalisinglearning

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