IDES - Building Learning Communities
IDES will examine how both primary and secondary sectors can effectively approach personalisation of education and will pursue the fundamental values of IDES by encouraging young people to help make their school a community of learning where all participants recognise they are learners and support each other to achieve excellence.
Key areas are:
- environment for learning
- choice of learning and teaching approaches
- ways in which learning is organised.
Background
Within the new landscape created by Curriculum for Excellence, schools need to become ‘personalised’ in the sense that the individual learner will have a claim on the time and the assistance of both teacher and peers but has an obligation to make a positive contribution in return.
Effective learning requires the individual’s willing participation and acceptance of responsibility.
Personalised learning is, therefore, part of the process of establishing the school as a mutually supportive community of learners.
IDES will consider and take forward some of the thinking and ideas first set out in the paper 'Personalised Learning' developed by the Future Learning and Teaching (FLaT) reference group of Learning and Teaching Scotland. We wish to acknowledge their work on that paper and are grateful for the opportunity to build on it.
FLaT Paper on Personalised Learning (73 KB)
Pilot activities - 2008
If you have within your school or organisation examples of projects which exhibit some or all of the criteria set out in the project outline (see Building Learning Communities leaflet below) we would like to hear from you.
IDES can provide a grant of up to £1000 towards the cost of developing projects and will consider all proposals received.
You can provide information about your project(s) and submit a bid for a grant by completing and returning the application form.
IDES - Building a Learning Community Project Application Form (55 KB)Completed forms must be submitted by Friday 11 January 2008. We look forward to hearing from you.
Further information is available from and completed forms should be submitted to:
IDES Network
Learning and Teaching Scotland
Level 9, City House
Overgate
Dundee
DD1 1UH
Fax 01382 443645
Email: ides@LTScotland.org.uk