"This time, it's personal!": Personalised Learning

Children and young people deserve to be successful, achieve their potential, and become active citizens within safe and secure environments. Governments have sought to achieve this by using a ‘one size fits all’ approach to compulsory education, meaning that systems have given little recognition to individuality, personal needs, or aspirations. However, our understanding of learning is changing. As such, world class schools are now embracing ‘personalised learning’ as a way of transforming their provision so that children and young people at every stage have opportunities to grow and develop, and their individual needs are addressed (see space for Personalised Learning, n.d., pp.4-5). This short article will consider what personalised learning is, how it works, and how educators can embrace it in their classrooms.