Effective teaching and learning

Personalised learning demands teaching and learning strategies that develop the competence and confidence of every learner by actively engaging and stretching them.

For teachers, it means a focus on their repertoire of teaching skills, their subject specialisms and their management of the learning experience. Personalised learning requires a range of whole class, group and individual teaching, learning and ICT strategies to transmit knowledge, to instil key learning skills and to accommodate different paces of learning. For pupils, this means a focus on their learning skills and their capability to take forward their own learning.

The National Strategies' projects on learning and ICT (PNS Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching in the primary years and Learning and Teaching Using ICT; KS3 Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching and learning in secondary schools, ICT Across the Curriculum (ICTAC) and Leading in Learning) are at the heart of personalised learning because they involve the systematic and explicit development of learning skills and strategies across the curriculum. The aim is to enable pupils to understand themselves better as learners and so take greater control of and responsibility for their learning, transferring and applying a widening repertoire of learning approaches in different subjects and contexts. They also offer a language for talking about learning.

Full packs of the resources below can be ordered from the DCSF Publications Centre.
Tel: 0845 60 222 60
Fax: 0845 60 333 60
Email: dcsf@prolog.uk.com
Please quote respective references for each resource.

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The Primary National Strategy

• The primary resource Excellence and Enjoyment, Learning and teaching in the primary years  (resource reference: DfES 0518 2004 G). (Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching in the primary years).
• A series of training units has been written based around three themes: Planning and assessing learning; Creating a learning culture; and Understanding how learning develops. (Learning and teaching in the Primary Years: Professional development resources).
• The introductory guide for Excellence and Enjoyment, Learning and Teaching in the primary years: Introductory guide: supporting school improvement  (resource reference: DfES 0344-2004 G). (Introductory guide).
• Learning and Teaching Using ICT (resource reference DfES0315-2004G) for the Lesson Extracts and resource reference for the DfES0368-2004, for the Leadership Team Toolkit is available for schools. (Learning and Teaching Using ICT).

The Secondary Strategy for School Improvement

• Schools can order the 20 self-study units in Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching and learning in secondary schools (resource reference: DfES 0423 2004 G). (Pedagogy in Practice: Teaching and learning in secondary schools).
• ICTAC (ICT Across the Curriculum) materials are available from DCSF Publications (resource reference: DfES 0171-2004) (ICT Across the Curriculum).
• Literacy Across the Curriculum materials are available for schools.

The Secondary Intervention Materials comprise two new online resources: progression maps in English and mathematics; and a suite of interactive online training modules. These in turn relate directly to a range of existing Strategy materials that schools use to support the learning and progress of individuals and groups of pupils - grouped together as the 'intervention toolkit'. In addition, the online resources provide direct online links to other essential subject materials that contribute to the professional development of the school intervention team, especially lead English and mathematics intervention teachers.

The Progression maps are a curriculum planning tool for use by teachers to support the learning and progress of pupils who are working below national expectations. They help teachers to identify precisely where pupils are struggling and to plan the next steps in learning. They cover reading writing and the main aspects of mathematics. Unlike the original intervention materials, they are not age or even stage related but can be used with pupils throughout KS3 and KS4.

Further information about the intervention materials can be found at: http://www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/intervention/57.html

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