These slides are part of Session 1 for our TakingITGlobal Professional Learning Course on Empowering Student Voice in Education offered to educators during our Winter/Spring 2015 session. http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/professional-development/ecourses.html
4. Cluster Colour
Orange
Sun West
Rosetown, SK
Yellow
Sun West
Rosetown, SK
Pink
St. Anthony
Peterborough, ON
Green
Evergreen School
Division
Gimli, MB
Blue
Sun West
Davidson School
Rosetown, SK
Red
St. Alphonsus
Peterborough, ON
Purple
St. Francis of
Assisi
Peterborough, ON
Brown
Seven Oaks
Winnipeg, MB
Grey
Simcoe County,
ON
White
Waterloo, ON
5. Interacting on Webex
We’ll be using Webex in the following ways:
● Using the chat box to share our thoughts at any time
● Raise our hands when we have something to say - we will hand the mic over to you!
● Collaborate using the whiteboard.
● Watch a couple of videos by sharing the link in the chat box. You will need to copy
and paste the link into your web browser. When you are finished, let us know in the
chat box.
6. Welcome to Session 1!
What were some of your reactions to the results of the student
voice survey?
7. Our “need to knows”
Collaborative Inquiry Question: What do we need to know as
teachers in order to empower student voice in our classrooms?
http://pdclass.tiged.org/sv2015/p
adlet/35
9. UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Article 12:
● “Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or
her own views the right to express those views freely in all
matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due
weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child”
10. Pat Thompson
Conceptual problems with the term “voice”
● Singularity - unified and single view vs. plural views
● Single purpose - students are asked for a specific reason but
may choose to exercise voice for a variety of reasons
● Voice is ‘disembodied’
● Authenticity - understood as consistent and pure
● Language - voice is expressed in words
● Etiquette - voice is exercised in particular ways and at
particular times Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88133570@N00/3096765798/">Marc
Wathieu
13. Some ways students express voice...
Source: http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesLIT/ProfessionalLearning/CBS/CBS_StudentVoice.pdf
14. How might educators “hear” voice?
Source: http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesLIT/ProfessionalLearning/CBS/CBS_StudentVoice.pdf
Q: Think of your response
to a recent event in your
classroom/school in which
student voice was evident –
what are the implications of
this response? What beliefs
and values about student
voice are evident from this
analysis?
15. How can student voice support
inclusive education?
Students can surprise adults with fair and realistic feedback, ideas and
questions as partners vs. objects of education/research
● Sellman: Although students with social, emotional and behaviorial
problems may be seen as expressing their “voice” in other ways, a
group of students were engaged as “Students as Researchers” to
explore perceptions of the school behavior management policy
and provide a final report of identified themes.
● Bishton & Lindsay: By taking photographs, ranking, symbols and
puppets, students across a range of learning exceptionalities (e.g.
ASD) meaningfully shared what they dis/liked about school
a. “Each child needs to be confident that they will be listened
to before they are willing to express their opinions” (p. 181)
“Disability doesn't make you
exceptional, but questioning what
you think you know about it does”
- Stella
Young
16. What are some areas where student
voice can flourish?
1) Teaching and Learning
2) Classroom Culture
3) School Climate
18. Classroom Culture
How we act, react and interact in class
impacts voice:
- Self-awareness, self-efficacy
- Interpersonal relationships (educator-
student, student-student)
- Conflict resolution
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving
- Risk-taking Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34728211@N05/4443590130/">gil
hooly studio
19. School Climate
Q: How does the school climate impact classroom culture?
How does it impact students’ and educators’ ability to
empower student voice?
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/478235
83@N03/6822343100/">Enokson
20. Cluster Activity
How does student voice inform curriculum planning and objectives?
1) Pick one of the student voice projects you learned about in orientation, or a
student voice project you may know of.
2) Map out how this project connects to your curriculum using paper or Popplet
(www.popplet.com)
3) Take a photo/screenshot and upload it to the gallery in the virtual classroom.
22. Top 10 Tech Tools for
Pedagogical Documentation
Digital
Images
Video &
Animation
Mind
Mapping
Note
Capture
Audio
Recording
Blogging
Social
Media
Comic Strip
Wiki
Presentation
& Polling
23. Top 10 Tech Tools for
Pedagogical Documentation
Digital
Images
Video &
Animation
Mind
Mapping
Note
Capture
Audio
Recording
Blogging
Social Media
Comic Strip
Wiki &
Online Docs
Presentation
& Polling
Flickr
Global Gallery
YouTube
Vimeo
AdobeVoice
Evernote
Padlet
Blogger
Tumblr
TIGweb
BitStrips
Comic Life
SlideShare
Kahoot
Piktochart
Popplet
MindMeister
SMART Ideas
VoiceThread
Audacity
Twitter
Facebook
Wikispaces
Google Docs
Writeboard
25. Tasks for Session 2
● Please have your students take the student voice
survey.
● Share and discuss the results of the student voice
survey with your class.
● Based on survey results, explore and identify an
area (learning environment, school culture, school
policy, student leadership, student-centred learning)
where students and teachers can work together to
enhance student voice.
● Document the learning process by capturing an
image & uploading it to the classroom gallery.
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/65054187
@N00/59207597/>beardenb
26. Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your participation!
Hinweis der Redaktion
St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School
Peterborough
St. Alphonsus Catholic Elementary School
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School
Direct participants to padlet in virtual classroom:
Ask participants to fill in their “need to knows” based on the results of their survey.
This will create their personalized lines of inquiry as we begin to think about our student voice projects - what is something unique we can explore or take away related to our particular classrooms?
Context within which student voice has been discussed/debated/contested over the years
Using the text chat.
The many non-verbal elements in this list speak to what Pat Thompson refers to as “disembodied” voice - the concern that speech may be privileged over other forms of bodily expression. Our bodies (non-verbal), actions, and how we adorn ourselves (clothing, symbols) can give off important information about what we think, our identities, attitudes, interests, affiliations. This form of communication can speak volumes.
We also saw this in orientation, when using the global gallery card deck, we could see the way messages and ideas on global issues were projected through art.
What’s nice about this diagram is it shows how we both actively solicit student voice, but may also happen to uncover/discover it through other means (e.g. observation, listening, document review).
In Ontario, exceptionalities as defined by the IPRC range from: behaviour, communication, intellectual, physical, multiple (combination)
Question of how do we understand “voice” i.e. how it is expressed and how we hear it, when considering students with exceptionalities?
According to Sellman, most commonly perceived voice of SEBD students is in the form of externalized behaviors or resistance to both curriculum and teaching methods they perceive as irrelevant, disaffecting and/or patronising
Little research has been done to assess how the ideas and energy students experiencing SEBD can influence teaching and learning, the classroom community and school culture positively through pupil participation projects
In orientation, we highlighted different student voice projects under 5 areas: student-centred learning, student leadership, learning environment (e.g. physical, technology), policy-making, school culture.
Let’s consider some of the larger contexts that impact how these 5 areas of student voice can flourish: 1) how teaching and learning is planned and organized, 2) the classroom culture and 3) the school climate.
In our journey together, want to get to a point of shared leadership with our students. In this course, by co-leading a student voice project with our students, we can work together to uncover, build or strengthen the culture of student voice in our contexts.
Think-Pair-Share on curriculum planning question
e.g. Meeting in a circle as part of restorative classroom practices to develop a strong classroom culture. A circle is a way of meeting with people and of having conversations in which the shape itself implies, community, connection, inclusion, fairness, equality and wholeness. It draws on the Aboriginal tradition of the talking circle in a complex multicultural, contemporary society. Meeting in a circle ensures that everyone is respected, has a voice and is appropriately heard.
Text chat
Ask if Ontario schools got this far and show what they did...
Direct participants to each share a project they really liked from the orientation examples, or to one they may know of from their own or a colleagues’ experience. Then, as a group, pick one project and map out how it may connect to your curriculum. Use popplet, or a piece of paper. Take a photo/screenshot and upload it to the virtual classroom.