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Invitation for Teachers engaged in Student Voice work in schools to attend ACCS Student Voice Webinar March 2nd from 1pm–3pm: "What helps students in their learning… A professional reflection exercise".

On Thursday 9th December, ACCS hosted a webinar with staff and students from schools across the country and we explored the topic: “What helps students in their learning?” During that webinar, the young people told us a great deal about their experiences in classrooms and shared their ideas with us about how these experiences could be enhanced. We attach a document which summarises some of this feedback and plan to use this as a springboard for discussions with teachers in our next webinar.  

The next webinar in this series is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2nd from 1pm-3pm. This will be facilitated by Gerard O’Sullivan (NCCA) and Ger Halbert along with Dr Domnall Fleming (UCC) and Áine O'Sullivan (ACCS). The format will include a guided conversation/panel discussion followed by school conversations in break out rooms.

The webinar will give practitioners an opportunity to explore the key messages in the feedback offered by students at the previous webinar. This is a CPD event for teachers only and is presented as a professional reflection exercise for teachers already engaged in Student Voice work in schools. The purpose of this webinar is for the practitioners to reach a shared understanding of the perspectives of students. The focus is on Lundy’s “audience and influence” quadrants and the outcomes of the webinar can be shared with students when practitioners return to school. As part of the Student Voice series, we plan to work with the students again in the final term of this school year. 

Teachers registering for the webinar should use the email address attached to the Zoom account they intend to access the webinar on. Please make sure your zoom client is up to date. Click on the link https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362233-Upgrading-Zoom-to-the-latest-version or scan the attached QR code which will bring you to Zoom’s update information page. There you will find information on why you should keep your version of Zoom updated, information on new features, and links to download the latest version of Zoom for your device.

Participants are requested to register on the link below by 5pm, Tuesday, March 1st so that breakout rooms can be populated before the event: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrfuGsqTsvE9zMMTgYRGoQDiCJlX-uHAfo   

Please note that this event may be recorded. 

Please contact Áine O'Sullivan, Assistant General Secretary at aosullivan@accs.ie if you have any queries on this event. 

John Irwin, General Secretary, ACCS

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