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| AdminHistory | 'The Programme’s aims and development were presented. Project Director, Jean Rudduck was invited to discuss her project ‘Consulting Students about Teaching and Learning’. Discussion points included school-wide issues such as: changing systems of rewards and sanctions; identifying qualities needed in a new headteacher; getting the school council to work better. Year group issues were planning inductions; organising parents’ evening; improving homework. Class issues included how to help pupils’ learn; what gets in the way of learning; how feedback helps to improve your work and ways of catching up work if you don’t understand or miss work. The project asked what pupils gained from being consulted, some of the phrases included ‘feeling that you are respected and that you listed to and taken seriously’; knowing your views have an impact on how things are done the classroom and school’; ‘feeling you have greater control over how you learn’; ‘are more confident about how to improve it’; and ‘feeling more positive about learning and about school’.
Project Directors, Peter Kutnick, Peter Blatchford and Maurice Galton from the Improving the Effectiveness of Pupil Group Work: The SPRinG Project were also invited to speak about their aims and some findings such as reality and resistances of group work.
Project Directors Ros Sutherland, Susan Robertson and Peter John from InterActive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age spoke of the overall aim of their project; role of the teacher; integrating ICT into teaching and learning and out-of-school learning.
The Home School Knowledge Exchange Project Director, Martin Hughes spoke of improving information for parents and carers, ways of bringing home and community into the school environment.
Policy, Learning and Inclusion in the Learning and Skills System Project Directors, Frank Coffield, Ann Hodgson and Ken Spours, spoke about how learning is shaped by a range of external or contextual factors including funding, targets, inspections and institutional competition'.
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