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Guiding principles: GenAI, Rosenshine and Personalisation

Combining GenAI and Rosenshine's principles to Personalise your Teaching

Victoria Hedlund, 16th October 2024

Most people in Education have at some point come across Rosenshine's principles of instruction. Often used as a framework for teaching, you may have even experienced them as interview questions for a job or PGCE entry. But how can GenAI be meshed with Rosenshine's principles, to enable you to personalise your teaching and feel more confident in your practice? How can it make you more informed and adaptive?

Whether you are an established teacher or new to the profession, first read this overview of how GenAI can be used to action Rosenshine's Principles of Effective Instruction, resulting in personalisation of teaching, learning and your CPD. Then delve deeper into our series of Blog posts discussing each Principle of Effective Instruction and use our (free!) tools to start feeling the benefit and power of GenAI for your practice.

You'll need a GenAI bot to use our tools.

Gen AI and Education

The recent DfE report 'Generative AI in Education' acknowledged that the impact of GenAI on education could be 'transformative'. It divides the positive impacts to the sector as being through (1) Helping teachers save time by automating tasks or (2) Improving teaching effectiveness by personalising learning for students (p4). A simple websearch or GenAI request will provide you with many examples of (1). We are different. Our approach in this Blog is to focus on (2) - the use of GenAI to personalise learning. We deconstruct this personalisation to focus on (a) using GenAI to personalise learning for students AND (b) personalise professional development for teachers. We are not yet another website to create lesson plans.

Our tools are based on a social capital and equity model of education. We aim to use GenAI to create indicative child diversity of knowledge, skills, experiences and wider aspects of being that could hold for children in your classroom: Our first GenAI tool gives you well-reasoned examples of what children in your classroom could arrive with. From this, in further Blogs and Tools, we focus on using GenAI to give specific examples of how you can personalise learning for these children, along Rosenshine's 17 Principles of Effective Instruction.

Rosenshine's 17 Principles of Effective Instruction

Rosenshine's 2012 paper defines a framework for teaching and learning practice. He outlines his ten 'Principles of Instruction' and then operationalises these principles by turning them into practical suggestions for teaching practice. He defines these as the '17 Principles for Effective Instruction', visible in the image above. Potentially, these are the key take-aways you will have been embedding (or are hoping to embed) in your lessons and practice. Or they may be completely new to you. You may want to read his paper to explore his principles in more detail, or you may want to skip straight to our series of blog posts, where we discuss how each of these 17 Principles can be utilised, accessed and quantised using GenAI. You'll definitely want to use our (free!) tools for teachers to increase your confidence with subject knowledge, pedagogy and adaptive teaching. All through the power of GenAI.

Personalisation as Professional Development

We assume a stance that professional development for teachers is a dynamic, fluid and iterative process: a continual, informed state of progress. This is echoed in the Teachers's Standards and the Core Content Framework. Our view of professional development isn't endless attendance on outsourced courses (although we all love a jolly and a day off timetable) and internal speakers on INSET days (when we'd all rather be planning and sorting out our classrooms!). Instead it is something that is present in the learning about (and of) the individual needs of our pupils (our internal data) and matching this with research (action or otherwise) and theory (external data). Therefore for us, the professional development of a teacher involves iterative child-led continual adaptation and development of practice, related to a wider theoretical context.

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