LCB006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Student Voice, Teaching Philosophy
14 Jun 2018
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• Systemic benefits of student voice:
o Can help:
• Evaluate school processes and procedures as well as educational placements and
interventions
• Improve teachers' practices and professional qualities
• Student benefits:
o It can strengthen students' commitment to school and learning
o It is an empowering process for students, developing their assertive and leadership skills
o It helps students develop citizenship skills in a democratic society
o It helps students develop competence and a heightened sense of belonging
Plan a session with a student with additional needs in service-learning context
Situation: first day of school, want to know about the student
Identify key issues/themes you wish to explore in regards to inclusion or exclusion
• What want to do this term
• How do you best learn
• How do you get help
• What are you most worried about
• What are you most looking forward to
• Where would you like support/ what would you like that support to do for you?
What methods would you use to elicit your students/clients views?
• Letter to me
• Brainstorm
• Yarning circle
Critical incident: what can it be?
• Can be any event, experience or observation which, through reflection, can lead to change in
one's own thinking, their values, attitudes, perspectives and actions
• Denotes a learning curve, which has challenged and transformed our mindsets for social
processes/practices and our approaches to other people in different contexts
• How does the critical incident relate with yourself:
o Think about experiences, own values, ethics and teaching philosophy
o About inclusion and being a citizen in this society
o First time witnessed the incident and there as an observer
o Contradictory with values and philosophy of respect and ethics (respect and accept that
someone else may have a different way of acting, how impose rules and expectations,
how share authority and power), believe that everyone is genuinely good but because of
circumstance may bring out 'bad self', philosophy to try to solve the problem and help
other people in society
• Reflect on same incident as a pre-service teacher, set of professional beliefs
o Code of ethics, professional standards, disability standards for education
o Social parameters: is this really fair to the student?
Micro-level of school context
• Why do I teach or act the way I do?
• Am I right or wrong?
• Why my efforts to differentiate my teaching did not work?
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