19/01/09: Harris Student Commission on Learning
We're proud to be working alongside staff and students from the seven Harris Academies to support the development of the Harris Student Commission on Learning - a ground-breaking initiative designed to bring about a step-change in student engagement, motivation and learning across the Harris Federation.
The Commission places enquiry about learning, both within the academies and from external experts and sites of excellent practice, in the hands of young people. Seventy student leaders, supported by teachers and other adults, form the Commission, with hundreds of others getting involved through in-school research and by testing out new approaches.
Young people will become leaders of learning. They will be trained as co-evaluators and co-designers of learning - working in partnership with staff to design and deliver new approaches. The Commission is not merely about seeking their opinions. Students will engage in research into effective learning, working with world leaders in the field in order to understand what is known, but also to create new knowledge about how to improve learning and the conditions necessary to bring about improvement.
The Student Commission will involve all 7,000 Harris students in some way, face-to-face and virtually. It will encourage in them a stronger feeling of being stakeholders in learning and educators will change their ways of working to routinely incorporate feedback from students on learning design and delivery.
Read the January 2008 Harris staff update on the Commission Download file
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I have worked closely with GoddardPayne throughout the past year on the Harris Federation Student Commission on Learning. In all the work we have done together, they have demonstrated acute perception, a wide knowledge of education research and a depth of insight, analysis and innovative thinking which makes it exciting to work as part of a team with them. They are creative, perceptive and resourceful with a wide network of expert contacts on which to draw.
GoddardPayne have shown a very clear understanding of the Harris federation’s expectations and priorities and also of the wider academies context. Their instant grasp of our particular context has enabled them to provide very effective challenge and support and to deliver results of the highest quality.
P.by Jane Fletcher P.on September 10, 2009 17:32
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