ILP

[duplofrenzy]

Lovely new teacher offering to do ILP for DC6, who 'gets' things v quickly. State primary, class of 30, year 2.
What could/ should I suggest / expect that would actually help DC?
Anyone been here before?
Thank you.

I'm assuming ILP=Individual learning plan.

First of all, it is excellent that your DC's ability is being recognised, so sounds like a great teacher. It often used to concern me that a primary teacher could not teach 29 children one thing and one child something different. I have a dd who is advanced in maths and I would have suggested teaching her at home and having school monitor her work or doing flip learning using a computer based learning programme. I would not have asked for lunch time teaching, as I don't think it is fair to teachers to give up their lunch time.

Have you had a thought on what you would like? Have you spoken to the school yet?

Beware of buzz words like "enrichment" or "sideways learning" as in practice this could mean just giving dc a worksheet to get on with by themselves,

Is there a lot of harm in just doing a worksheet by themselves (dependent on their age though). DS teaches himself lots.

Our school do ILPs for children on the G&T list. It is a list of 3 targets that they expect the child to achieve by the end of that term (reviewed termly) and which specific members of staff are going to ensure that it happens. e.g if they had one for literacy it may say "X will be reading at book band 12. To achieve this they will read daily with Mrs Y and specifically will be looking at inference from the text" or words to that effect.

Regarding worksheets to get on with by themselves - my high IQ daughter regards that treatment as a punishment for finishing too fast and has accordingly dumbed down to avoid it. She craves social interaction not endless repetition of stuff she finds boring and unimportant to the core, like spelling and arithmetic. We are paying the price now as she is really switched off, not happy in school, and only getting Bs and Cs in year 10, when previously she was consistently getting top marks.