Table of Contents

Contents, Introduction, Part 1, How to Use this Book, The Draw and Write and Draw and Talk Techniques, Parental Involvement, Staff Training: PowerPoint Workshops, Part 2, Draw and Write and Draw and Talk Sections, Section 1. Coming to School, Section 2. My Classroom, Section 3. My School, Section 4. Assemblies, Section 5. Praise, Rewards and Sanctions, Section 6. Lunchtime, Section 7. Outdoor Playing and Learning, Section 8. Listen and Help Me, Section 9. Learning to Read, Section 10. Learning Maths, Section 11. PE, Section 12. Homework, Section 13. Inclusion and Special Needs, Section 14. New Learning, Section 15. Parental Involvement, Bibliography, Appendix

Summary of contents Introduction and how to use the book * An explanation of the Draw and Write and Draw and Talk techniques * Parental Involvement. This includes ways to involve parents more and suggestions for gaining parent's responses about the school * Training for teachers and others with suggested workshops using PowerPoint presentations for staff training. Teachers and other adults will be trained in the techniques of working with children of various ages to gain their responses and in extracting data from the children's responses in order to: - use the data for the OFSTED evaluation forms (SEFs) - use the children's responses to improve the ways teachers/adults work with children - use the data to improve the health and happiness of the children - re-use the techniques to evaluate changes in the children's perceptions at the end of the school year or term. Activities for use with children and how to use results This contains 15 sections. Each section contains the following: * A Draw and Talk strategy for children not yet writing for themselves. * Suggestions about how to use the data and work to do with these young children. * An activity page. * Introduction to the Draw and Write. * Draw and Write invitations to use with all children. * Children's response sheet. * Suggestions for collecting data under various headings. * What did the data tell us? Discuss with colleagues. * Discussion with the children. * Activities for 5-7 year olds with an accompanying activity page. * Activities for 8-9 year olds with an accompanying activity page. * Activities for 10-11 year olds with an accompanying activity page. * Review and action, suggestions to complete each section. Staff Training: PowerPoint Workshops The accompanying CD-Rom contains all the materials necessary to make full use of the techniques described in Children's Voices. It includes: * Three PowerPoint presentations, which will enable the training of teachers and others in understanding, practising, using and undertaking the research techniques with children * All the resources needed to administer the research techniques as well as the activity pages for the children to use. * Excel sheets for collecting data from children's response sheets from each section can be printed off to allow teachers to enter data by hand

About the Author

Margaret Collins is Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Education, University of Southampton. Author of 24 publications, she writes teaching materials for children and articles for early years' journals, and researches children's perceptions of health education topics.