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Rights Respecting Schools:

Rights Respecting Schools:. Workshop Series 2012 - 2013. Workshop 3. Meaningful Student Participation. Five-Minute Reflection. INSTRUCTIONS Welcome! Fill in the opinion scale for each of the statements on the Self Assessment Handout .

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Rights Respecting Schools:

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  1. Rights Respecting Schools: Workshop Series 2012 - 2013

  2. Workshop 3 Meaningful Student Participation

  3. Five-Minute Reflection • INSTRUCTIONS • Welcome! • Fill in the opinion scale for each of the statements on the Self Assessment Handout. • Please consider all of your relationships withchildren – at school and at home.

  4. Workshop 3: Meaningful Student Participation • AGENDA • Activity 1: Five-Minute Reflection • Activity 2: Defining Meaningful Student Participation • Activity 2: Debate It! A Little or A Lot? • Activity 3: Tools to Gauge and Plan Student Participation • Activity 4: Good Practices for Meaningful Student Participation

  5. Defining Meaningful Student Participation • What do you think is meant by meaningful student participation? • What makes the participation meaningful? • MEANINGFUL STUDENT PARTICIPATION

  6. Defining Meaningful Student Participation • Meaningful Student Participation is engaging students as partners in educational planning, research, teaching, evaluating, decision-making, advocacy and more. • ~SoundOut: Promoting Student Voice in Schoolsoundout.org

  7. Articles Outlining Rights to Participation • Article 5:The State must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to provide guidance for the child that is appropriate to her or his evolving capacities • Article 9:non-separation of children from families without the right to make their views known • Article 12:the right to be listened to and taken seriously • Article 13: the right to freedom of expression • Article 14: the right to freedom of conscience, thought and religion

  8. Articles Outlining Rights to Participation • (Continued) • Article 16:the right to privacy • Article 17:the right to information • Article 29: the right to education that promotes respect for human rights and democracy

  9. Student Participation in Rights Respecting Schools • Benchmark 8 • The school has an active student council that is democratically elected. Chartwell Elementary School – British Columbia

  10. Student Participation in Rights Respecting Schools • Benchmark 9 • School committees and decision-making processes include student representation and the active participation of students.

  11. Student Participation in Rights Respecting Schools • Benchmark 10 • Students are consulted and help make decisions on a regular basis in the classroom and in the wider school environment. Our Ideal School Activity at Westmount Park Elementary School - Québec

  12. Student Participation in Rights Respecting Schools • Benchmark 11 • The school has an elected student council whose members act as ambassadors for the Convention and the Rights Respecting Schools initiative. St. Gabriel Catholic School - Ontario

  13. Student Participation in Rights Respecting Schools • Benchmark 12 • Students are provided with opportunities to support the rights of others locally, nationally and globally.

  14. Debate It - A little or a lot? • To what extent should students have the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes in schools concerning both: • curricular programming (formal, informal, extra) • and administrative programming (budget allocations, assessment and evaluation, staff meetings, etc.)?

  15. Hart’s Ladder of Participation

  16. RRS Action Plan: Our Roadmap Our school has a roadmap for our future CRT completes RRS Action Plan What is being done? What do we need to do next?

  17. Good Practices for Meaningful StudentParticipation • Work together asa group to determine which strategies wouldwork best to meet your assigned benchmark. • Create this 3-columned chart

  18. Take Away Resource – For Everyone • 50 Ways Adults Can Support Student Voice • Describes 50 ideas adults can use tocreate meaningful opportunitiesfor students to participate • Printed handout

  19. Take Away Resource – For Staff/Students • Student Councils in Elementary Schools • Outlines a clear process for developinga democratically elected and envisioned student council • Available for download onrightsrespectingschools.ca

  20. Take Away Resource – For Staff/Students • Student Participation Assessments • This guide includes fun and engagingactivities for encouraging input, ideas,and feedback from children. Suitable for use inside and outside theclassroom. • Available for download onrightsrespectingschools.ca’

  21. Take Away Resource – For Parents • What Adults Can Learn from Kids • AdoraSvitak, prolific short storywriter and blogger since age seven, challenges adults to listen to and learn from children. • Available for download atted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html

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