23.08.10 Team Meeting

• Steiner Schools- Ruth
• Mixed ability to traditional
• Kids Respect? Switiching off
• Read more- notes, Christine notes
• Readings on curriculum
• Middle Schools
• Teaching styles/pedagogy- Floor 4
• Read online sites- points to notes
• Do teachers feel “high” respect, curriculums good- but are these the ones students dislike?
• Curriculum as a barrier?
• Shared perceptions?
• Boys struggling?

o   Louder

o   Expected to struggle

o   Same few boys taught by same students- see problem when it doesn’t exist

• SATS

o   OM lend itself to some subjects?

o   Perception of some better than others

• Inclusivity this week

o   Gender

o   Disability

o   Engaged

• Tue- Morning

o   Text page, 2 page of literature review

o   Danny goes through, Uniform

• IPPR
• Introduction of Report

o   Outline of Opening Minds

o   What Transition Is

o   What are we doing?

o   When research occurred- methods

• What have the students been told of OM? Susceptible to leading questions
• Follow-up from List 

o   Why are you anxious of these things

o   Anxious- exams etc

o   More serious work

o   More mature

§  Why?

§  Because KS4 means something?

• Aware of changes- what facing

o   More competencies

o   Less

• Respect?Independence- what does this mean?
• “practical lessons”
• What have
• How have they found it- how different?
• Lessons more difficult
• Induction lessons

o   What involves- ironed out issues 

• GCSE Options

o   Ability

o   Too hard

• Lingo from Teachers
• Space- anxiety of new build than anything else- new space- teaching
• Literature Review

o   Middle School

o   Curriculum Stuff- competencies based

o   Background Noise

o   Referencing Harvard Style

o   Add references to Bibliography page

• Put up interesting qs on webspace  
• Endnote web-share folder with partner
• Access Endnote-create an account-  quick bibliography
• “Support for Research”
• Need to work out keywords
• Ho Hit good record- see how else they’re described
• Ideas for keywords
• Mark useful ideas
• Report- Abstract availiability – BREI, ERC
• Times Educational Supplement

o   Factiva

o   Curriculum journal- search key journals

• Tipton- Research, Articles, etc
• Impact prospectus 2008, WHERE IS 2009/2010?

 

26.08.10

• Next Week

o   Fine- tune research questions

o   Methodology

• Dislike

o   What being taught

o   Or personality

• Tape- recording for Teachers
• Notes- off putting

o   Jot down okay?

o   Just remember if no- write down at end of conversation

o   Jot phone- key words

o   Ask each time for pupils “You don’t mind if I take notes..”

o   If asked-tell them           

§  Separation from teachers

§  Your experiences

o   Teachers won’t be happy- I won’t tell you off

• Warwick Ethics guidelines
• British Sociology Association
• Will be put on webspace
• Head ethics book- chapter. Hammersley and Atkinson- Ethnography, Bulmer
• Don’t lie unless absolutely necessary for info e.g. criminal gangs
• Don’t disturb learning

o   Limit outside of calss

o   5 minute window in class

• Don’t disrupt class

o   Bit going to happen at beginning

o   Write down crying as a response

• General watching

o   Can’t write down too much

§  Lots of writing

§  Even if half snippet- detail

o   Reporting bk on scene

o   Do visual records follow interviews

• Conversations with other kinds- record general atmosphere

o   Particular outburst- record

o   Watch what members of sample doing

• Sift through when typed up
• If recurring theme- note repetition, but not in detail
• Type up notes- see key recurrences
• Books on studies in schools- read methods chapter
• Presence changes circumstances- not 100% scientific
• Revert back very quickly over time
• Open report going back to Lesley
• Confidentiality- Anonymise in report- Teachers, 12 students- hard not to identify who they are
• Useful info

o   Neutral way

o   Decision can’t go in- could compromise persons

• Obvious who they are
• Happy with transcript?
• Said what you mean?
• Do you see things this way?

o   Observed this

o   Felt this

• Would you agree? Can put in report
• Write up notes straightaway

o   Notes on webspace

o   Immediately- constant discussion

• Maybe not found- why at you? Did we not notice?
• Next week

o   Methods reading

o   Developing Research Question

• Refer bk to minutes for research questions
• Put up at webspace- text. Danny will try and answer
• Kids being kids. Gender. Struggling? Or less engaged? Being dealt with
• Write down any questions we’d ideally liked to have asked before Term
• Qs setting and streaming
• How do these questions help us understand the transition?
• General stuff. How does it link bk?
• Ethnography- ethics
• Low order OM?
• Easier for children to switch from OM to low- harder to do phyics,
• 3 yr KS4? Not high status knowledge