About personalised learning
In any group of students there will be a range of diverse learning needs. Personalising learning for all students, including those with disability and additional learning needs, should take into these individual differences. Personalised learning and support to meet these diverse needs should be reflected in the quality of the learning experience that is offered to each individual student.
This training has given me better skills in formulating smart goals and strategies, so students can achieve syllabus outcomes.
Primary Teacher
It has given myself and my colleagues a blue print for a Learning Support Team. I wish all the staff completed this course as it really made you think about your goal setting and interventions.
Literacy Teacher
Course outline
All students are entitled to quality education. Personalising learning enables equitable access to and participation in the curriculum for all students.
- personalised learning and support for students with disability
- a collaborative, whole-school approach and supportive learning environments that provide rigorous, relevant and engaging learning experiences to improve outcomes for all students
- assessment of individual student need
- targeted teaching and learning activities and adjustments to meet identified student need
- the development of SMART goals and targeted interventions
- your responsibilities under the Disability Standards for Education 2005.
This course is divided into three sections:
Understanding
Learn what we mean by personalised learning, particularly in the context of diversity in our schools and our attitudes towards it. Explore the importance of a whole school approach when planning personalised learning and support and the roles of school support teams and collaborative partnerships with parents and the broader school community.
Assessment for Learning
Understand what is meant by assessment and why teachers need to assess to enable successful personalised learning to take place. Learn about the types of assessment available, how to adjust assessment tasks and how to communicate student progress to parents and carers. Use assessments that can be carried out in schools and create three SMART goals specific to your student.
Interventions
Explore a range of evidence-based teaching strategies and adjustments that can be utilised to meet the diverse learning needs of students at a school, classroom and individual level. Identify how assessment data can be used to plan for the specific needs of students and learn practical, planned adjustments across several stages of schooling. Devise interventions to support your SMART goals.
It provided step by step approach to helping identify student needs, plan lessons, implement adjustments so that all students can access educational outcomes.
Teacher
Who is the course for?
This course is for teachers working with students in primary and high school settings. The course assists teachers to develop a personalised approach to teaching and learning, using adjustments designed to meet students’ needs. The course is set within the supportive context of a whole school approach and includes practical strategies, resources and materials that are relevant for subject specialist staff in high schools and primary schools and for support teachers.Why join the course?
Participants’ pre and post-course evaluations demonstrate significantly increased confidence in identifying, assessing and supporting learners with personalised learning needs.
How would you rate your current skills in assessing the needs of students with this additional learning need?
- Not confident
- Somewhat confident
- Fairly confident
- Very confident
Pre
- 7.7%
- 67.1%
- 24.6%
- 0.5%
Post
- 0.5%
- 51.7%
- 47.8%
As of December 2019
This course looks at the importance of personalising learning to meet the diverse needs of individual students, including those with disability and additional learning needs, and provides a range of evidence-based strategies to meet these needs.
What you will learn
You will be able to understand:
- what is meant by personalised learning
- the diversity that exists in Australian schools
- the legal and professional responsibilities of schools relating to diversity
- how whole school approaches can support personalised learning
- how to use a range of assessments and adjust assessment tasks for students explain why teachers need to assess
- how to communicate student achievement to parents and carers
- the role of assessment in the teaching and learning cycle
- how collaborative planning works at a whole school, classroom and individual level
- the importance of learning and support teams in planning and programming for students
- how to be effective in working collaborative within your school community
- how to use planning frameworks for developing programs at a whole school, classroom and individual level
- the role of explicit and systematic instruction in effective teaching
- of the range of adjustments for meeting diverse learning needs
- how to use and evaluate a wide range of effective teaching strategies through the use of SMART goals
Check if your school or education system has a licence
Staff can access this course at no cost through their organisation.
Are you licensed?
If your school or education system is not in the list, please contact us.