homework for today

what does the term 'learner centred' mean to you?

Should it be learner center entered or personalised learned centred,

‘Personalised learning is not cafeteria style learning: picking your own curriculum from a wider self-service menu ...choice is just a means to turn children into more engaged and motivated investors in their own education.’ (Leadbeater 2005: 8)

‘personalised learning … means engaging learners in a highly interactive process of learning. Learning comes through interaction in which the learner discovers for themselves, reflects on what they have learned and how. Effective learning has to be co-created between learner and teacher, in which both invest effort and imagination’. (Leadbeater 2005: 8)

‘Personalised learning is designed to encourage children to see themselves as participants and contributors to their own education, taking responsibility, with teachers and others to design what they learn and how. Learning depends on creative interaction’. (Leadbeater 2005: 15)

‘Personalised learning puts the emphasis on learning through interaction and cocreation: children learn more effectively by participating more fully in their learning’. (Leadbeater 2005: 23)

From a students point of view
Getting to choose the way you want to work, and how you do it. I think that’s really important because it allows the learner to be more focused as well because it’s something that they get to decide, and not many schools let their students do that kind of thing’ (Year 9 student)

‘learning in your own way, not learning all the same way as the other kids, but just learning in your own way.’ (Year 9 student)

‘Take something that many people have done before and make it special to you, so take something and just kind of make it your own. Put your own personal brand on something that’s been done many times before.’ (Year 9 student)

‘A way of learning that’s unique to you, and learning that’s individual’ (Year 9 student)


‘The student has customised his learning to fit what he needs, and the personalisation goes around what he needs to learn at his full potential’ (Year 10 student)

what does the term 'learner agency' mean to you?





can students - communicate why they’re learning; talk about what their next steps for learning are;






have control over how they solve problems; collaborate with others; learn without being told to?


what have you learned from 'lockdown learning' that you want or need to hold on to?