Learning and Teaching
How does SEAL contribute to personalised learning?
Personalising learning means taking a structured and responsive approach to each pupil's learning, in order that they can progress, achieve and participate. It depends on engaging pupils as active and curious partners in their learning. It also hinges on assessment, both formative and summative, arrived at through techniques such as open questioning, peer-assessment, and sharing objectives and success criteria. Well-developed social and emotional skills have the potential to act as a solid foundation to these techniques, ultimately improving pupils’ potential to make progress in their learning.
Many schools are using the National Strategies materials, Assessment for learning – whole school training to support this work. When learning social and emotional skills, the same assessment principles apply and the use of AfL approaches is a necessary part of learning and teaching in SEAL.
2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group