STUDENT LED INTERVIEWS

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STUDENT LED INTERVIEWS

• Ballarat Secondary College
• Middle Years
• Initiative.

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Student Led interviews

• Why run them?
• 1. Traditional parent/teacher interviews
  poorly attended.
• 2. Students have little understanding of
  how they learn metacognition.
• 3. Students not making the best use of
  teacher feedback on assessment tasks.
• 4. Students not fully participating in
  their learning.

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How Where to run SLIs.

• Mentor Groups ..... Pastoral , social skills,
  resilience, community focus.
• Goal setting and monitoring for improvement.
• One teacher to 12 students.
• Teacher as interested adult/mentor.

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Mentor Groups SLIs

• Focus on understanding how students best take in
  information
• Visual
• Aural
• Reading Writing
• Kinaesthetic
• MICCUPS Which intelligences do students use
  most? Which might they develop? How can they
  develop the ones they dont use?
• Learning Styles Inventory.

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Mentor Groups SLIs.

• Students assess their progress by discussing
  their work with Mentor teacher and peers.
• Prepare a template for their interview.
• Decide on the work samples they will discuss.
• Demonstrate the skills they are developing and
  what they have learned about the subject and
  themselves through the process.
• Review goals set and decide on what new goals
  should be. Stop .. Start.. Continue.

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Plusses and Minuses.

• Attendance of parents at SLIs increased from 30
  to 90. ( in first year)
• Still close to 80.
• Kinaesthetic learners tend to prefer show and
  tell focus on their hands on learning.
• Some parents still want to see every teacher.

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Link Between Mentor SLI Success

• Some Mentor groups operated very well....
• Teacher skill and enthusiasm/ownership.
• Others less successful...Some students teachers
  resistant or unable to build relationships
  within the group.
• High teacher turnover has a very negative impact.
  

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Where to from here?

• Individual Learning Plans
• Every teacher is a Mentor teacher and Mentor is a
  real subject with 2 periods a week and a
  report.
• Shared Groups - 24 students with 2 teachers.
• Small group session - 6 students with their
  mentor investigate progress in each subject.