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Student Voice

Introduction = What it is.

Student voice refers to each student having both something to say and the confidence to say it. Then the opportunity for them to do so must be created. This requires that the student is listened to and heard, which implies that they have an influence on some action.

Related School Wide initiatives

Student Council

Student Leader programme

Student Wellbeing policy

Student sports teams or other extra-curricular activities.

We will connect the student voice in the classroom with these school wide initiatives where they are relevant.

Meaning for Business Studies Department

The better and more fully that students engage in and take responsibility for their learning the more effective the outcome.

We can therefore use the student voice to;

Help students to figure out what they already know about the material

Hook them into the new material

Make connections between topics

Encourage students to reflect on and articulate how and what they learn

Support student wellbeing as they feel listened to and so respected

Reinforce the learning intentions.

Co-create success criteria.

Develop the key skills from the new JC (i.e. Managing myself, being numerate, being literate)

Classroom Strategies

Establish prior knowledge - What do you know about?

Carry out research and feedback results

Group work

Presentations

Decide together when tests might happen

Contribute to decisions on success criteria

Contribute to the choice or sequence of topics taught

Further Supports and Resources

www.ourvoiceourschools.ie

Periodic Review

Review to see what needs changing and what is to be continued.

As we are trying to bring focus on this area into our work, a brief review would be worthwhile each term. An annual review would be needed thereafter.

The following needs to be included in the review

Date of review

Discussion - How effective have the classroom strategies been

Actions - What actions are needed to improve or better implement what is our focus

Who - What person or persons is responsible for implementing this action.

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Effective Questioning & Classroom Discussion

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Effective Questioning & Classroom Discussion

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1. School Self-Evaluation/School Improvement Plan

2. Student Voice

3. Student Wellbeing

4. Digital Technologies

5. Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

6. Effective Questioning & Classroom Discussion

7. Formative Feedback

8. Student Collaboration

9. Student Reflection

10. Managing Information & Thinking

11. Being Creative

12. Communicating

13. Working with Others

14. Staying Well

15. Managing Myself

16. Being Numerate

17. Being Literate

18. Assessment

19. Reporting

20. Cross-curricular

21. Co-Curricular

22. Differentiation/UDL

23. Cultural Diversity

24. L1/L2 LPs

25. Showcasing Business Studies

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You may wish to link or upload a document to share your yearly plan

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Introduction

Related School-wide Initiatives

What does it mean for Business Studies?

Classroom Strategies in Action

Further Supports/Resources

Periodic Review

To be reviewed periodically

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You may link or upload a document to share your units of learning.

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Share details of formative/summative assessment support

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Student Voice

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Student reflection

Introduction = What it is.

Student reflection means students thinking about some item or some action so that they can continuously learn and improve. There are two possibilities here

1. Reflection in action where students are faced with an issue and can think on their feet to resolve it

2. Reflection on action where students make sense of an experience after it has happened.

Both types of reflection are needed otherwise the experience comes and goes and little remains, which is what happens in passive learning.

Related School Wide initiatives

Student Council

Student Leader programme

Student Wellbeing policy

Student sports teams or other extra-curricular activities.

We will connect the student reflection in the classroom with these school wide initiatives where they are relevant.

Meaning for Business Studies Department

The better we can help students engage in active learning, the more effective our teaching and learning will be. Students, by engaging in the process of reflection, can make sense of their experiences, ask new questions, challenge their assumptions, and in the process put what they have learned into their long term memory. This is a key part of the process of active learning.

We can therefore use student reflection to;

Help students to make connections between topics

Help students appreciate what they already know

Encourage  and support students as they reflect on and articulate how and what they are  learning

Support student wellbeing as they become more aware of progress in their own learning

Reinforce the learning intentions.

Co-create success criteria.

Develop the key skills from the new JC (i.e. Managing myself and Staying well)

Classroom Strategies

Use starter tasks or retrieval practices at the beginning of lessons to reflect on previous material covered.

Stop and provide time at the end of a lesson to reflect on progress made

During a lesson make time to stop and say “Let’s pause and reflect”

Make time to say “stop and think before answering this question” during lessons.

At regular intervals during, and at the end of a topic formally stop and provide time for students to reflect on both

1. What they have learned and

2. How they have learned it.

Provide opportunities for students to assess themselves and their classmates and then to reflect on the feedback from their peers.

Provide students with an opportunity to give

1. an explanation of something they have learned.

2. an opinion on something they have learned.

3. an explanation of how they have contributed to a group project

4. an explanation of what they would do differently at the end of a piece of work.

Using the simple 3 - 2 - 1 strategy.

Routinely ask students to evaluate their work in light of the success criteria.

Regularly use the 3 step reflection process of What? So What? Now What? As a simple but effective way of structuring reflection.

Further Supports and Resources

https://ncca.ie/media/1926/assessment-booklet-4_en.pdf

https://ncca.ie/media/1956/workshop4_designed-slides-en.pdf

https://ncca.ie/media/1958/workshop-4speaker-notes_en.pdf

Periodic Review

Review to see what needs changing and what is to be continued.

As we are trying to bring focus on this area into our work, a brief review would be worthwhile each term. An annual review would be needed thereafter.

The following needs to be included in the review

Date of review

Discussion - How effective have the classroom strategies been

Actions - What actions are needed to improve or better implement what is our focus

Who - What person or persons is responsible for implementing this action.