To be truly personalised, learning must be led by the student, as well as decisions about
what, when and how to learn.
We have tentatively identified much of this as being consistent with the term ‘Modern
Learning Environments’. Features include:
● A team teaching approach, enabling the deployment of strengths, available to a
wider group of students; (enables the best teacher, who has highest level of
competency to take charge of all maths acceleration programmes etc.);
● Several teachers, enable perhaps one to be ‘roving, supporting learning’;
● Students knowing the purpose, the direction, attributes of their current learning
and knowing their next step and be capable of discussing own learning;
● Student choice (e.g. need to attend the apostrophe workshop, as s/he knows it is
his/her next learning step, but choosing to go to the one later in the week; getting
up after three minutes because s/he ‘gets it’); time tabling flexibility.
● Resources that support the ‘directed’ part of instruction. (e.g. videos, recordings
of teacher session to revisit);
● Arrangement of student according to need and not age;
● Spaces that support collaboration, creativity or quiet/independent learning,
including break-out spaces;
● A learning community of teachers –observation and feedback in real-time, all of
the time! Learning together, working together, enabling greater coherence. Daily
moderation;
● ICT as an enabler;
● Furniture that enables flexibility...
○ suits different purposes
○ mobile
○ different heights
○ suiting different learning styles and situations
● Values;
● A high level of creativity present.
