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By Mitchell Schofield

Investigating the views of Year 6 students at Oxley Park Primary School – school subjects and important qualities in teachers. By Mitchell Schofield. Introduction.

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  1. Investigating the views of Year 6 students at Oxley Park Primary School – school subjects and important qualities in teachers. By Mitchell Schofield

  2. Introduction • I was interested in this project because people in school often complain about the subjects they are doing, so I wanted to investigate why. • I chose this project because I wanted teachers to see what qualities their pupils really want to see in a teacher. I also wanted to research into favourite and least favourite subjects.

  3. Methods for School Subjects • I designed an open ended questionnaire to find out what year 6 students thought about the different subjects. • I handed out the questionnaires in class. • I explained that it was double sided and to fill in all questions. • I collected the completed questionnaires on the same day. • I then collated the results.

  4. Methods for Teachers Attributes • I used a diamond ranking sheet and wrote out 9 attributes of a teacher that needed to be ranked from most to least important. • I interviewed several year 6 students and asked them to rate the 9 attributes from most to least important using the diamond ranking. • I tallied the results using a 5-4-3-2-1 scoring

  5. Sets fair homework Exciting Lots of activities most important Encouraging Happy and smiling Keeps control of the class Kind fair to everyone Group work least important

  6. Results. Q 1) Do you like school? All 20 pupils responded ‘yes’.

  7. Results Q 2) What is your favourite subject? There were a variety of subjects that students enjoyed. Maths and Art were the most popular.

  8. Results • Q 3) Why do you like the subject • 25% of pupils thought their favourite subject was fun

  9. Results Q 4) Is it possible to make the subject more enjoyable? Almost 75% of people thought the subject could be made more enjoyable

  10. Results • Q 5) Do you think the teachers make lessons enjoyable? • Most students felt that the teachers already make the lessons enjoyable

  11. Results Q 6) • Of the two students who said ‘no’ the reasons were • ‘Because its like word after word’ and ‘Because we need to do more fun things’

  12. Results • Diamond Ranking of Teachers Qualities

  13. Results Diamond Ranking continued.. • Group work was not rated high by any students. • The highest scoring attributes were for teachers who were ‘Happy and smiling’ and ‘Kept control of the class’

  14. Conclusion • Most students seem to like school • The most popular subject was maths. I found this surprising as I don’t find it fun myself. Students who like sums, adding up and problem solving said they enjoyed maths. • The next most popular subject was Art with reasons given that it was fun or they liked drawing. • Year 6 students want teachers that are happy and smiling but who can keep control of the class.

  15. Thank you for watching my presentation

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