Welcome to Valentines

Student Leadership at Valentines

• Student Learning Consultants• Student Parliament• Student Researchers• Senior team• Departmental Learning Consultants• Student Interviewers• School Parliament• Ecosquad• Meet and Greet

What is Student Voice? Sharing our stories

Rotation:

What areas of Student leadership do you do well?What would you like to develop?

Deep Learning

• Assessment for Learning• Learn to learn• Student Voice

Deep Learning

• What is Deep learning?

• “An articulate, autonomous but collaborative learner.” Emma Sims SSAT

• Learning is the key, not teaching. Similar to the change of emphasis in lesson observations.

What makes a good leader? Acquiring the

skills for student leadership

Should we be worried about students taking control?

Student voice and leadership is about..

• Encouraging students to take ownership and have a responsibility for some areas of school life.

Its not about..• Allowing the students to completely

run the school!

Why should students be leaders?

What are the qualities of a good leader?

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Finding the leadersThink about how your school can select students with the best leadership skills but also encourage others to gain skills.• Develop projects that will appeal to and

benefit a wide range of students.• Encourage any existing student leaders

to train and be a good role model to others.

• Think carefully about how you select your students to be leaders.

Planning for more student voice

Students as researchers to help planning

e.g. Out of hours learning in the

department

Working with another group of students outside the lesson e.g. With a set of

questionnaires or in an interview

Working with students in the lesson –

checking understanding

Focussed observationsHelping to evaluate

teachers training – 3 month

evaluations

Final Thoughts

“The case is of Child. It is his present powers which are to assert themselves; his present capabilities which are to be exercised; his present attitudes which are to be realised”

(Dewey 1908 ‘The Child and the Curriculum’)

What is a Student Learning Consultant

• The SLC journey at VHS• Student lesson observation• Research• Departmental work• Planning• INSET days• Focus groups

Student Learning Consultants

• What are the benefits to a school of having an SLC scheme?

• What would teachers think about the scheme?

• How do you sell the scheme to leadership?

The Valentines Model

• “pilot”• Assemblies• Application• Interview• Training• Initial observations• Initial feedback sessions

The application process

Look at the forms used at VHS.

Could you use these, do you want to make changes or would you start

from scratch?

5 minutes – discuss, amend or design your own

What makes a good lesson?

What makes a good teacher?

Observing lessons

• The lesson observation form• What would you change? • Design your own• Protocol for observing lessons

Giving feedback

• Protocol• Where and how to sit• Role play