This article describes my doctoral research into shared decision-making in the classroom and offers hope and encouragement to teachers and school leaders who seek greater collaboration with their pupils. In my mid-fifties, having worked as an Educational Psychologist for around 30 years, I decided that I needed to find a way to reinvigorate my professional…
Author: Geraldine Rowe
Amazon Review by Derry Hannam 21 May 2021 5 out of 5 stars . “A Timely, Readable, Theoretically Grounded but Eminently Practical Book.” I really enjoyed this book by Geraldine Rowe and recommend it to class teachers, senior leaders, teacher educators and policy makers. It fits beautifully into a series of recent works that challenge the…
Schools are already moving in a direction that prepares the ground for a change of culture. Never before has there been such a focus on the learning experiences of pupils; the social and well-being needs of teachers and pupils; of collaboration and sharing of ideas between and within schools for how to support learning; and…
It’s Our School, It’s Our Time: a companion guide to whole-school collaborative decision-making A few years ago I carried out a research study as part of my doctorate; I explored the experience of three teachers who were sometimes sharing classroom decision-making with their pupils. Although there is evidence that this way of teaching has many…
This 1-hour online interactive workshop is aimed at teachers in training and newly qualified teachers, although all are welcome. 2-3 p.m. (London) Wednesday 3rd February 2021 Places are limited to 40 and can be booked on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collaborative-decision-making-getting-started-tickets-136957251827 If there is enough interest, I will set up additional dates. Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash
Earlier this week 190 Primary PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate of Education) students from a leading London university Zoomed in to learn about the principles and evidence for collaborative decision-making (CDM) in the classroom. This letter is my response to their thought-provoking questions, a few of which I was able to address in my seminar.
About ten years ago I read that binge drinkers in Hertfordshire were being offered the chance to reduce their fines in exchange for a place on an alcohol re-education course run by Hertfordshire Police. I was working in Hertfordshire schools and took the opportunity to ask a school’s Police Liaison Officer about this practice. I…
My book It’s Our School, It’s Our Time was published by Routledge towards the end of November and I held the book launch on 7th December. Because of the pandemic, the launch had to be a virtual one, run on Zoom. I used Eventbrite to publicise the event, and was pleasantly surprised to find that…
Anyone putting any effort into making some kind of change in a school wants to make it stick. Heads are not interested in passing fads. They want to embed practices that can become part of a strong, sustainable school culture, supporting those aspects of the school which are already recognised as valuable, and providing a…
Whilst recognising the importance of respecting pupils, schools very rarely seek the consent of pupils before requesting the involvement of professionals. Both schools and the Educational Psychology profession need to find better ways of addressing this. This article focuses on consent from pupils for the involvement of an Educational psychologist (EP), as that is my…