[SENco-forum] Re: SENco-forum Digest, Vol 43, Issue 18

Google DFES Personalised Learning and stand back!  843,000 hits!

Start at www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/personalisedlearning/    but do not
forget to go to all the others

Innovations Unit for best practice
QCA for core requirements
OECD for projects being done for IU
TeacherNet so you can feed back how you feel about PL......

PL opening statement is that it is not a new policy but 'the drawing
together of best practice' to enable every student to learn in the way that
they best learn.

Great principles - no additional cash!  Emphasis is on Assessment for
Learning i.e. knowing where the child is and where they need to get to and
advocates lots of Professional development training, peer support &
feedback, visiting schools that operate best practice, getting shiny
certificates for compliance and oh! did I mention that there are children
that someone has to teach?

Sharon Tringham

As a theory it is great - can't wait to see it in practice.  It should mean
that children with SEN get all the support they need done by newly trained
specialist teachers having watched all that best practise for SEN.  I fear
it will give license for those students who can to zoom ahead in the
curriculum and those who can't to be left behind.  It won't matter as the
school will have beautifully documented that this is the child's chosen pace
and style of working, and that will be that.

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