Put simply, personalising learning and teaching means taking a highly structured and responsive approach to each child's and young person's learning, in order that all are able to progress, achieve and participate. It means strengthening the link between learning and teaching by engaging pupils - and their parents - as partners in learning

(2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group)

There are three essential and interrelated elements that need to be in place in a small-group, classroom or whole-school setting for personalised learning to be both effective and successful. Each element has equal importance:

• how children and young people learn: an understanding of theories of learning, the teaching models these give rise to and how they relate to individuals or groups of learners - 'fitness for purpose pedagogy' (this element includes the importance of social and emotional aspects of learning)
• what children and young people learn: knowledge about key skills, subject concepts, progression within and between subjects and areas of learning (subject knowledge)
• assessing learners' achievement and their learning needs: using formative, periodic and summative assessment, diagnostic marking, questioning and response to plan next steps in learning and provision (assessment for learning).

2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group (Ref: 04255-2006DOM-EN)

Pedagogy and personalisation (Ref: 00126-2007DOM-EN)

A framework for personalised learning, downloadable from Leading on Intervention personalisation section

SEAL materials