Personalised learning

The objectives are worthy, the destination is clear. It's getting there that's the issue

The issues

Delivering more work-related opportunities without compromising GCSE results. Delivering a personalised, flexible curriculum for hundreds of students. Delivering tailored learning to both the gifted and those falling behind without compromising everyone else.

The objectives are worthy, the destination is clear. It’s getting there that’s the issue.

The challenges and opportunities

Personalised learning demands that students study wherever the right teaching skills or facilities for them can be found, within or outside of the school.

It’s a brave new world. One that dictates that schools, colleges and work-based learning organisations – all with different management cultures, communication systems and strengths and weaknesses – work in partnership with each other.

The administrative implications are huge. But these are just the start. What about duty of care?  Students may leave the school gates, but they don’t leave your personal responsibility. And what about monitoring and reporting on progress?

The SIMS answer

When it comes to the challenges and opportunities presented by personalised learning, no one has more answers than SIMS.

SIMS provides secondary school leaders with the tools to:

• Allow students to take more responsibility for their own learning
• Build individual student requirements into assessment, teaching and learning, curriculum
  choice, school organisation and communication beyond the classroom
• Create stronger links with the wider community
• Deliver manageable and effective curricular flexibility.

Some SIMS solutions help schools evolve their processes and procedures to meet these new challenges. Others tackle the issues of planning and scheduling learning. Others provide virtual learning environments that allow study to happen where and when it suits the individual learner.