Archive for the ‘Student Voice’ Category

We left behind the notion many years ago that teachers teach, they don’t learn. One only has to look at the thriving community of teachers on Twitter for example to see a massive group of teachers trying hard to learn and understand new ideas, new tools and new ways of teaching. But often that search is a very personal one. Teachers learn, but they do so on their own or perhaps with support from a colleague or dare I say it – a training course. What about the people you’re with every day – your students. What do they have

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Regular readers will know that I have a keen interest in student voice, and to get student voice really right you’ve got to know what you’re doing when you come to questionnaire design. With student, parent and staff voice you’ll get really important feedback from your questionnaire if it’s done right – but you’ve got to really careful in your design otherwise you’ll get bad results that will set you on the wrong track. To avoid yourself falling into this trap, here’s a brief guide for how to put together effective questionnaires.   Step 1 – Do You Really Want

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If he hadn’t already in life, in death Steve Jobs has quicky been canonised to that most sacred of states – the management guru. In death people have applied his quotes to all manner of human endeavours. If there was one area though in education where Steve’s wisdom has light to share it’s within the arena of Student Voice. To me it shows up some of the flaws in the way it’s sometimes applied, and also it’s power in improving learning.

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Why and how to include students in your school’s senior leadership team

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