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Lesson plan: Choose your own teacher!
From the Developing Rights online resource
Age group: 11 - 14
Aims:
To encourage pupils to formulate their own ideas of what constitutes
a ‘good’ education.
To examine how one group of pupils have taken responsibility to
ensure that they have the right to a ‘good’ education
and a say in their own future.
To show that exercising a right also involves taking responsibilities.
What to do:
Preparation: make enough photocopies of the ‘Choose
your own teacher!’ worksheet so that you have one for
every pair of pupils. Be prepared to write up questions and pupils’
responses on a board or flip chart.
Ask each pupil to think about and write down their responses to
the following question: ‘What is your idea of a good education?’
Now ask them to share their ideas with a partner and respond to
the following questions together:
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‘What do you have a right to expect from your teachers
in order to get a good education?’
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‘For each of these rights, what responsibilities do you
have?’
Ask each pair to feed back their responses to the whole class.
Write the responses up on the board in two columns. Now ask pupils
to imagine that they have been given the responsibility to help
to choose a new teacher. They should think of three qualities that
they would look for in a new teacher and three questions they would
ask candidates at an interview.
Finally, hand out copies of the ‘Choose your own teacher!’
sheet, asking pupils to compare the two sets of qualities and questions.
Round up this activity with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages
of choosing your own teacher. What responsibilities does this right
involve? What skills do the pupils develop in choosing a teacher?
Are these skills part of a ‘good’ education?
Extension work:
Pupils may wish to pursue the idea of setting up pupil panels
in their school, if these do not exist already. This issue may be
added to key issues identified from other activities in the unit
and worked on further using activities from unit 3.
Curriculum links:
| England |
Scotland |
Wales |
| English:
- Group discussion and interaction - different contributions;
different views into account; sift, summarise and use the
most important points.
Citizenship/PSHE:
- To communicate confidently with peers and adults; consider
social and moral dilemmas. |
English:
- Listening in groups; talking in groups; talking about experiences,
feelings and opinions; reading for information.
Religious and Moral Education:
- Relationships and moral values.
PSD:
- Social development. |
English:
- Group discussion and interaction - different contributions;
different views into account ; sift, summarise and use the
most important points.
- Reading - extract meaning; analyse and discuss.
PSE:
- Communicate confidently one's feelings and views. |
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