Too often, the Personalised Learning Plan (PLP) is seen as just a bureaucratic formality, stripped of its real purpose: to be a dynamic, practical and genuinely helpful tool to support each pupil along their learning journey.

With a clear, direct and hands-on approach, this essential guide helps those working in schools reflect on what works and what risks turning the PLP into an empty document. The volume also offers practical examples, intervention strategies, guidance on what to include (and what to avoid), common mistakes to steer clear of, and tips for creating an effective PLP focused on the pupil’s actual needs.

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BOOK STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS

Personalised Learning Plan – What to do and what to avoid is divided into 15 chapters, grouped into 3 macro-sections:

The PLP: what it’s for, when it’s useful, when it’s necessary

• PLANNING personalisation
• WHO completes it? WHEN is it completed? WHICH template?
• MOTIVATION: discovering the joy of learning
• MONITORING the effectiveness of interventions
• PROCEDURES for genuine sharing

Which PLP? Choosing appropriate models and content to meet different needs

• To address different needs, different PLPs are needed
• Guidance by school level and age
• A PLP tailored to the student

Make interventions explicit. Strategies, tools, study method and assessments

• Requirements for an “effective” PLP
• Teaching strategies, facilitations and simplifications
• Compensatory tools must really compensate!
• Dispensatory measures: necessary but not sufficient
• The study method
• Personalising assessment methods
• Learning context and environment

Each chapter contains:

At the beginning of each chapter, an illustration introduces the topic.

• Explanations of the topic: Why is it important?
• Brief and simple indications for deciding What to do and reflect on What to avoid.

• A more in-depth description on the specific topic and on what to keep in mind.
• Indications on how to intervene.

Some chapters close with useful forms to fill out.

Leaf through some pages of volume which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product.

THE AUTHORS

Flavio Fogarolo. Trainer, he deals with inclusive teaching. For several years he was the contact person for disability and SLD at the UST of Vicenza. He collaborates with Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson, and is the author of various publications on the design of educational games and compensatory materials.

Filippo Barbera. Graduated in Primary Education and Psychology, he is a primary school teacher specializing in Learning Psychopathology and the Montessori Method; he is a trainer for teachers of all levels and carries out awareness activities on Specific Learning Disorders.

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