Focus groups: Teachers
1. What do you understand by the notion of student voice?
Describe what you think student voice means and what it looks like in school.
2. How do the vision and values of your school relate to student voice? What does this look like in the school?
3. What opportunities does the school provide for students to have a voice in their learning?
What examples do you have that you can give me?
4. How well do you feel you know your students? Why do you say that? Is this important to you?
5. What kind of student voice contributions do your students make to their learning? In the classroom and school-wide?
6. What kind of decisions do your students get to make in the classroom and the school?
How do you choose which students to whom you will give decision-making opportunities? How do you help them to make decisions?
7. How does your teacher know what you can do in reading, writing and maths? How often do your students talk to you about what they can do and what they need to do next?
8. What have been some of the successes and challenges that you have experienced with student voice strategies in the classroom/school? What has made the student voice strategies successful or challenging?
9. What professional development have the teachers at this school received (or are receiving now) that promote student voice?
10. How do you see the future of the school in terms of empowering, motivating and engaging students to learn? What tools or strategies are you intending to use? What can the leadership team do to help you implement student voice strategies?
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Focus group questions: students.
1. What do you understand by the words student voice?
Describe what you think student voice means and what it looks like in school.
2. What are the school values or motto?
What do they look like in school and how do they relate to student voice?
3. How well do you feel your teacher/s know you?
Why do you say that? Is this important to you? How does this affect your learning at school?
4. What are some things teachers do to help motivate you with your learning? What else could they do to motivate you more?
5. What would the perfect classroom look like?
Describe a classroom you would like to be in that would make you want to learn more.
6. How does your teacher know what you can do in reading, writing and maths? How often do you talk to your teacher about what you can do and what you need to do next?
7. What does your teacher do that shows you she/he knows about your learning?
How important is it that your teacher knows about your learning?
8. What kind of decisions do you get to make in the classroom and the school? Describe how the teachers help you to make decisions. How does it make you feel when your teacher listens to you and you get to make decisions?
9. How does talking about your learning help you in the classroom? What would you like to see changed? What works best for you.
10. What else would you like to tell me about teachers, how you learn best, what motivates you and helps you achieve your learning goals?
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