Pupil Voice - Learner Teacher, Teacher Learner

Cheadle Hulme High has developed some pioneering pupil voice work, including a joint project with The Teacher Training Department at Manchester Metropolitan University in which a group of students spend a day on campus evaluating trainee teachers.

The students are used to giving feedback on lessons delivered by trainees on teaching practice in school as they are part of a scheme that takes students randomly from across all year groups and gives them the opportunity to advise the trainees about their lessons.

This day out is different though. Once the students have made their views known about the morning session's mini lessons, they have the tables turned on them and are given just one hour to prepare a lesson of their own using the department's resources.

The afternoon is spent delivering those lessons which are then evaluated by the trainees. The outcome is that the trainees learn what works from the student perspective and the students find out what it takes to be a teacher.