I like personalised learning programmes. This type of learning has been talked about for a few years now.
It makes sense that teachers, students and parents sit down and develop goals for the student’s learning and then together monitor the student’s progress towards achieving those goals.
It’s being done in many schools and is considered best practice. Those schools that aren’t doing it need to be identified and professional development provided to them so they can be brought up to standard.
It comes back to investing in teachers – not giving kids vouchers so they can swan off to another ‘provider’.
the thing is teachers just dont have the time to set up personalised learning programs, unfortunately
That’s okay they’ll all be away from school anyway in their cars
Vroom, now here’s a road to success 
Kelvin, @ James 10:17 is right.
Every family has the right to expect an IEP for their child (God forbid that they ask for them). You must know however that the construction and management of 25 to 30 of these and the current broad curriculum requirements is simply a pipe dream.
Now give the teacher “W(h)anganui Collegiate” class sizes – (14:1) ratios and he might be able to realise this goal.
Perhaps primary schools need to look at changing the whole approach to core curriculum delivery by streaming in vertically grouped classes. Return to home rooms for the “Social curriculum”.
(I read somewhere where John Hattie and his empirical research, maintains that class size makes no difference, or was that another convenient Ministerial misquote. Either way, teachers have a word for that sort of thinking…)
Not just the teachers but the students as well.
More teachers could fix that but they would need the funding. Considering that this is our future that we’re talking about here then the funding we put toward it should be more than we spend on anything else.
The IEP/IDP process is exactly the right thing for children outside the middle 70-80%. For the middle group the time is probably better spent teaching.
There are children currently needing IEP and not able to get one up and running because of time constraints on teachers. Amount of assessment required has been cited as a time-draining factor.
Perhaps the proposed ‘learning mentors’ could help put more hours in the day!
Vouchers would be a step to privatising education, which would likely put an end to the overcrowded under-resourced detention centres (’classrooms’) that typify the state education system.
Richard Prebble in ‘I’ve been thinking’ (the book precursor to ACT policy) was the voucher system was the crucial way to step by step (change) get the electorate to buy into privatizing education. Look out for the other plank of tax relief for anyone using private schools (and also hospitals & police if they can get it in).