Minutes+16th+February

- Christine: How authentic are we? - Catherine: Mixed understanding of what student voice is. Students needs to be able to talk about their learning more than they are able to now - Chic There are a number of strands to student voice - Brigette: Pilot programme for student led conferencing. - Jonathan: Need to find the systems and a pilot programme allows for this- Each school needs to develop systems that suit individual school - Christine - suggested that these system get shared with each school within the group so they can use it to springboard ideas - Chic - one goal that needs to change is that this is a space for sharing our learning and resources about the approaches we are taking - Bridget - readings around student voice introduced into team meetings - common language - Sue - capturing student voice -students being able to show their voice in a range of different ways to motivate and engage them in next steps for their learning. - Catherine - concept book and thinking book. Thinking book - what are my questions, what am I going to do abut it What do I need to next? - Donna - first inquiry for 2011 "Strive until you blossom". Looking at the learning - develop Pomaria learning behaviours - looking at tracking throughout the classrooms eg seekers of knowledge. Overarching culminating task for the year, but checkpoints at the end of each term - Where am I at? Where am I moving to next? - Chic - common language, approaches and understandings relating to mapping - Shirley - Leading teachers to student voice through the mechanism of AFOL. Three way conferences in 2011 - to ensure teachers and parents understand the role students have to play. Deliberate choice of concepts - learning to learning. Teachers sharing reports with students before they went home to parents and invited to comment and in some case co-construct new comments- enthusiasm from those teaching who trialled it. Use ERO report and parts of the NZC to validate the process for parents who challenged it - Bridget - need ideas on how to communicate and inform school community. - Chic - need a clear definition of what we mean by student voice - how do we keep it to a level that engages the student and keeps it manageable for the classroom teacher - Catherine - need to start with the evidence/formative assessment - learning intentions so that chn have the knowledge and understanding to baseline themselves - Chic - look at through the lens of a particular goal, but this is not the only indicator for student voice. What is the real end in mind? - deeper than using only formative assessment. Christine - the more I read the further away from arriving at the real essence of student voice. Only have a seed of what it is - true learning Charmaine - Looking at sharing reports with students in order for student to inform parents - ESOL. Language of learning. - development of oral language to help stimulate the student voice. Mark - no one definition of student voice will suit all - layers of meaning within the definition
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