Ideas for Debates on Student Voice Forums Olimpius Istrate associate researcher, Institute for Educa

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Ideas for Debateson Student Voice
ForumsOlimpius Istrateassociate researcher,
Institute for Education Sciences
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Parents' control. Should students' gradesbe
available on the Internet?

• We are not far from the times when parents could
  check anytime, directly on the Internet, the
  grades of their children and also their
  children's classmates. Of course, if the
  decision-makers from the Ministry of Education
  would take such a decision, they would firstly
  consult students. What do you think?

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Learning together in school cooperation or
competition?

• Students, parents, teachers, education
  researchers and decision-makers - we are all
  willing to increase the efficiency of learning
  activities. Should teachers organise the learning
  activities based on cooperation between students?
  Is competition a better solution for increasing
  the learning motivation?

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Grading students activities.Should pupils
contribute to the final marks?

• Maybe pupils should be teached how to appreciate
  their own work and learning performance.
  Self-evaluation a concept often discussed by
  rarely applied effectively... How can students
  grade themselves (and, maybe, grade their
  colleagues)? The final mark could be an average
  between teacher's mark, student's
  self-appreciation, and classmates' marks. Hmmm...
  It is not such a bad idea, after all! What could
  it happen?

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Should the teacher know everything?

• What makes the best teacher that good? The
  knowledge? How much knowledge? What if a teacher
  recognise that he/she has a limited amount of
  information memorised? Nowadays, a knowledge
  domain is huge the encyclopedic teacher is a
  myth. What if a teacher doesn't have the answers
  to a lot of questions pupils ask?

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Which learning is more efficient group
activities or frontal instruction?

• Most of the times, teachers work with the entire
  class lecturing, demonstrating, etc. But some
  say that working with (small) groups of learners
  is more efficient. What do you feel about?

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Online library versus printed books

• Some of us consult the websites with ready-made
  essays and school-papers with the argument of
  saving the trees. Beside this, the discussion
  remains which source of information is more
  trustfull? If it is to make a really serious
  intellectual work, what would you choose - the
  Internet resources or the traditional libraries?

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