Series: Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning

Consulting Pupils: A Toolkit for Teachers

John MacBeath, Helen Demetriou, Jean Rudduck and Kate Myers

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This resource contains examples of a range of manageable consultation strategies – writing-based, talk-based and, for pupils who have difficulty with writing or are shy about talking, image-based approaches to consultation.

Contents

Background

1 The national context for pupil consultation

2 Making use of this resource

3 The benefits of consulting pupils

4 What pupils have been consulted about

5 Some practical guidance

The toolbox

6 Three different forms of consultation

7 Overview of the toolbox

8 Strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches

9 Questionnaire-based approaches

• Quick response questionnaires
• The two-dimension questionnaire
• The double checklist
• The spot check

10 Writing-based approaches

• The questionnaire with some open questions
• Sentence completion
• The self-evaluation log
• The force field
• The quick 'post-box' evaluation and the 'listening post'
• Logs

11 Talk-based approaches

• Conversations
• Discussions
• Interviews

12 Image-based approaches

• Drawings and paintings
• Photographs
• Posters

Cautions and concerns

13 Issues in the process of consultation

14 Involving colleagues and building a commitment

Appendices

1 Including children in social research

2 Summary of different perspectives on methods of asking children and young people for their views

3 Presentation summary

References

Other titles in the series

• Students as Researchers: Making a Difference
• Consultation in the Classroom: Developing Dialogue about Teaching and Learning