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The question then for practitioners is how do we do it: how do we make the system respond to the individual’s needs? |
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"Personalised Learning"..what does it mean for us? (2005) |
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Suddenly we begin to hear a new phrase used with increasing frequency in the press, at conferences, during training sessions, in the staff room. Do you remember some years ago it happened with "creativity"? Gradually we begin to build an understanding of what the new phrase means and then consider how it will impact on our settings and the children we work with. Sometimes, with interpretation, we begin to understand that the new phrase, in part, relates to something that we have valued for some time. I believe this to be the case with Personalised Learning and the young child but before I explore this let us look at the big picture of the government’s agenda around "Personalised Learning" and how the phrase has become so high profile.
Background
In the Spring of 2004, David Milliband, (then Minister for Standards) gave a speech in the North of England in which he spoke about the individual’s opportunity for Choice and Voice. How everyone should have the chance to take the educational pathway right for them and how the individual should have the opportunity and the ability to voice his/her opinions and views within their community and society in general. He said “The question facing us today is simple; what do we need to do to make personalised learning the defining feature of our educational system?” *1
The question then for practitioners is how do we do it: how do we make the system respond to the individual’s needs?
Let me share with you the route I took as the Headteacher of a large Primary School(500 children) which includes a Nursery and Children’s Centre catering for children with an age range of 6 months to 11 years. For the purpose of this article I am focussing on the children in our Children’s Centre, Nursery, and Foundation Stage which for us extends into Year 1, in total 250 children weekly covering the age range of 6 months to 6 years...
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