Course Details

Effective learning to include relevant, accessible, successful learning may require re-aligning the curriculum. Changing curriculum and setting higher expectations is all well and good, but it will only lead to frustration unless ways are found to help students meet these expectations. This means identifying strategies to help students with a wide range of styles, difficulties, interests and strengths. “Personalization” is structuring experiences and building relationships that make learning meaningful to a given student.

Participants will:

• Discover what a personalized curriculum looks like
• Examine the advantages and disadvantages of accelerate programs
• Assess a number of alternatives to traditional academic curriculums and talk to those who are currently undertaking them or have previously done so
• Investigate the power of Small Learning Communities
• Debate the impact of differentiation on student outcomes
• Undertake an in-school project planning programme for either S.E.N. or Gifted & Talented students. This will be shared with other delegates who will have the opportunity to discuss the programme with those on whom it impacted

This course is part of a suite of Leadership courses; it may be taken as a stand-alone course or be combined with one or more from the suite to obtain either a Bronze, Silver or Gold level Leadership Award (please see the Leadership Suite page for more details).