4. Interest in ILPs
‘ILPs remain a central nexus of practice
–
, are
highly contentious among practitioners,
and rhetorically support personalised
learning opportunities’.
- Hamilton (2009)
6. Pupil Management
• Micro-targets
Focus
• Behavioural Change
• Improve learner success
Goals
• Progress towards curricula goals
Evaluation • Often judged in relation to achievement and retention
• Curricula/funding goals may be different to learners’ goals
Issues • Learners perceive them as irrelevant and refrain from
reflection on identity and goals
7. Transition Guidance
• Macro-targets
Focus
• Transition stages
Goals • Support learner progression
Evaluation
• Assessed retrospectively through
progression routes
Issues
• Learners often see the process as career
planning rather than action planning
8. Learning Skills
• Lifelong learning skills
Focus
• Reflection on learning
• Planning itself is seen as a valuable exercise to
Goals teach, with complex skills and qualities
developed by learners
• Qualitative improvements of the learners’
Evaluation perception of self where effort is rewarded as
well as ability
• Learners may not value literacies of lifelong
Issues learning and so we are influencing behaviour
rather than developing skills
9. Learning Management
There’s probably a long way to go with
learners generally
... I think it’s simply that we
haven’t got far enough down the line yet
with the whole situation.
10. ILPs & e-Learning
‘e-learning is
ideally centred on
the set of student
tasks’ Learning activities can be
classified by who is principally
- Carr-Chellman & Duchastel, 2000
directing the activity:
Self-directed
Peer-directed
Teacher-directed
- Biggs, 2003
11. Ownership
Developing empowering cultures requires
skill, thought and a commitment to valuing
and exploring processes,
not just focusing on
the ‘product’
- Haigh, 1999
12. Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
Formative assessment tool providing
scaffolding to heighten learner awareness.
Dialogue creates shared vision for future
development which can only be judged in
relation to that vision. Adaptive
customisation affords learners standard
tools (e.g. target setting, progress review,
etc.) to create a unique learning path.
14. Summary
Redesign
Entirely new ILP Do we need new practice?
Features
New feature set Did all features migrate?
Roadmap
New opportunities How to manage development?
Editor's Notes
Excellence and Enjoyment – For Vygotksy learning is not always fun, where the government is legitimising continued accumulation through global competitiveness (‘excellence’) in a knowledge-based (‘creative’) society through an appeal to consumerism (‘personalisation’) and the nice emotions (‘enjoyment’) derived from it;Marketisation and Equity - values such as self-motivation, self-regulation, and educational progress, are not equally distributed among different classes and cultures in English society. Personalisation and Choice - choice of institution and learning experience may be mutually contradictory – those that need most help are least likely to seek it.
For Vygotsky an independent learner is the result of learning rather than a premise for it.