NAACE Summer 2007 Personalised Learning

[Margaret Allen]

Hi

UK only, sorry! The above publication should be hitting doormats currently. There is an article in there called "Offering learners a voice" which you might find interesting.

First few lines.....

How can a teacher engage this child (picture of a child above)
This child's future is being personalised by today's experiences. Each child is an individual and, of course, every child does matter, but how can a teacher work with every single child individually while continuing to meet the day to day learning objectives for the class as a whole?

Learner response systems provide a mechanism for every child to be individually involved in class discussion......

[Dug]

I read this in today's Observer (UK broadsheet Sunday Newspaper):

"A Bad Week for:
Hand Raising
Teachers are being advised to find other ways of teasing answers out of their pupils. Asking them to put up their hands gives an unfair advantage to the confident, apparently. As we write, mind-reading skills are being developed at teacher-training colleges across the land."

We know something they don't know!