Personalised Learning in Partnership

PLiP is a school-based guided research programme that provides schools with an opportunity to consider how to best meet the challenge of personalised learning proven methods of bringing effective personalisation into the classroom.

The resulting programme, PLiP (Personalised Learning in Practice), provides schools with the means to make individual learning pathways a reality. PLiP is available in versions for both primary and secondary schools, meets the government’s priorities on Personalised Learning, Student Voice, Workforce Remodelling, and Collaboration and Networking between schools, and is available to schools as part of Edison’s Design for School Improvement, or as a standalone programme.

Right at the heart of PLiP is the development of ‘learning conversations’ between teachers and students. These act as a catalyst for powerful professional development for staff, and spur the students to take a greater interest in, and responsibility for, their own learning. Through a collaborative process, your school will build a profile of learning and teaching competencies, which describe and support a deeply personalised provision for learners. This profile is supported by insightful data you can use to assess your school’s personalised learning strengths and development needs.

Personalised learning is about engaging learners in a highly interactive process of learning. The learners make discoveries for themselves, reflect on what they have learned and how they have learned it. Effective learning has to be co-created between learner and teacher, a process in which both invest effort and imagination. As a result the learner becomes better able to selfmanage learning and more motivated to invest in it. Personalised learning is not individualised learning and it is not picking parts of a curriculum from a wide selection of offerings. Rather, it is learner-led learning, with the aim of motivating young people and their parents to become active investors in their own education.

The programme requires the involvement and support of school leaders and provides opportunities for strategic review and planning. Each school needs to nominate a lead teacher to drive the project process and this provide a very significant development opportunity for this member of staff as well as for the school as a whole.

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