Instead of focusing on themselves, Meaningful Student
Involvement engages all voices and teaches students and adults to honor the contributions and abilities of all students everywhere all the time in order to avoid showboating.
Not exact matches
With its learning cycle and outcomes firmly based in research and practice, Meaningful Student
Involvement can provide useful frameworks for teachers to
engage student
voice beyond simplistic and tokenistic measures.
Creating opportunities for meaningful
involvement for students, teachers, and parents is growing in many communities, while the federal government is increasingly asking how and where nontraditional
voices can be
engaged in decision - making.
Student forums: Large gatherings of students focused on improving schools, also called student congresses, can help create momentum for Meaningful Student
Involvement and an initial surge of interest in
engaging student
voice throughout education.
Committing to Meaningful Student
Involvement throughout education means working with inconvenient student
voice to discover, create, explore, and examine new ways to
engage disengaged learners, and new ways to make inconvenient student
voice constructive, if not always appreciated or deemed appropriate by everyone involved.
(Lorde, 1984) Paying attention to the dangers within student
voice by
engaging schools through Meaningful Student
Involvement honors the legacy of past and present efforts.
Engaging student
voice and fostering Meaningful Student
Involvement throughout the learning environment and across the education system are keys to demonstrating that belief.
This edition of Theory into Practice offers a comprehensive scan of research surrounding Meaningful Student
Involvement by highlighting what student
voice is, and how it can be
engaged throughout schools.
As educators move beyond viewing traditional student
involvement (i.e. students as hall monitors, teacher's helpers, student councils and A.S.B.s, etc.) as tantamount to democracy, they will begin to see the potential of
engaging ALL students»
voices.
Rather than silencing student
voice, Meaningful Student
Involvement can amplify the
voices of the silenced; more so, this approach can
engage these students as partners with the very teachers who used to fail them.
The authors cover a variety of topics and offer rationale for listening to students, barriers to student
involvement,
engaging «student
voice» in constructivist classrooms, issues of social justice and authenticity, and how pre-service teachers can — and must — learn from students.
And an effective
voice for parents is apparently just too much democracy and power for the Finch loyalists who are now
engaged in an undemocratic strategy to derail this important vehicle for parent
involvement in Bridgeport's schools.
SoundOut provides expert consulting to design, implement and evaluate projects, programs and approaches to
engaging student
voice, fostering Meaningful Student
Involvement and creating student / adult partnerships throughout education.