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What are Student Action Teams?

Definition:

Student Action Teams involve a group of students who work on a real, identified issue of community interest. The students carry out research on the topic and develop solutions – either proposals for others or action they then take.

Principles:

  • An active role for young people as part of their community;
  • Young people as community investigators;
  • Young people doing something that makes a difference or brings about change;
  • Programs that involve learning and meet academic goals

Roles in SATs:

There are changed roles for students in their learning through SATs:

  • Purposeful: students see outcomes that are important to them
  • Productive: students create something that makes a difference
  • Communal: students work together with fellow students, teachers and others

Some Previous Examples of Student Action Teams

See a fuller, hyperlinked list of recent examples of Student Action Teams on these pages.

Processes

The Student Actions Teams approach isn’t a set program; it is a learning and teaching approach, that is adapted to circumstances in individual schools and clusters of schools.

However, we have found ourselves using fairly consistent processes in practices so far:

  • Engagement Event (Forum 1)
  • Research Phase:
    what is the issue? what do we know about it?
  • Research Reporting Event (Forum 2)
  • Action Phase:
    what will we change? what will we do?
  • Action Reporting Event (Forum 3)


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