We’ve found some great resources for you, created a student voice audit tool and been doing some thinking about why democracy in schools is so important.
All posts for category involver blog tagged with 'International'
You can narrow down this category by clicking on these tags:
14-19
achievement
action
attainment
branding
Case study
Citizenship
class council
college
communication
Competitions & awards
Conferences & events
DCSF
democracy
democratic
design
effective
elections
empowerment
ethos
evaluation
feedback
fun
Funding
General education news
good practice
governors
graffiti
guidance
identity
International
interviews
Just for fun
KS1 (P1-P2)
KS2 (P3-P4-P5-P6)
KS3 (P7-S1-S2)
KS4 (S3-S4)
KS5 (6th Form/S5-S6)
leadership
lesson observation
meetings
NASUWT
New ideas
Newsletters
ofsted
online
Participation
participatory budgeting
policy
project management
publicity
pupil/student/learner voice
relationships
representatives
research
school/student/pupil council
School councils in the news
school councils uk
school improvement
Session
social enterprise
Staff
Stories
Strategy
success
survey
tagline
teaching & learning
Technology
template
tips & tricks
training
Twitter
unions
urban
video
I just read this really interesting article on how schools in Colorado are finding that in the quest to raise standards and achievement that data alone is a blunt tool; student voice sharpens this.
Their recommendations are excellent, especially:
Utilize student-led outreach to capture feedback from disengaged students.
Have a read: http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2010/01/05/in-r2t-student-voice-will-sharpen-blunt-instruments/
Should school councils be about ‘improving the school’ or ‘representing the views of all pupils’. Generally the two are inter-dependent, but which one takes primacy if there is a (perceived) conflict?
Slovakian adventure!
Oct 6
I’m back in London, via Vienna, after an amazing time in Kosice, Slovakia. It was a very inspiring and interesting three days.
Great to hear about the challenges, successes and stories of people in other countries who are broadly trying to do the same things as us in the UK. Great to meet so many motivated, passionate young people. Great to visit Slovakia for the first time – it is a beautiful country!
Slovakia Day 2
Oct 3
The main event was the visit a secondary technical school in Kosice. We had a tour of the school, and the countries who are participating in the project explained their projects – and what was happening with student voice in their countries – to the students.
Slovakia Day 1
Oct 1
In the UK, the idea behind student voice is pretty much considered a good one (just not a lot of people do it well), whereas in Slovakia the whole idea of genuine representative democracy is much newer, and far less popular.
We’re approaching the end of the pupil voice research we’ve been carrying out for the DCSF and SSAT.
We’ve also been invited to a student voice event in Slovakia.
A student from the States (I guess) plans, commits and is punished for school council election fraud and Tweets the whole thing as it’s going.
