Martin Lackéus

Welcome to my personal page! I am a teacher and researcher at Chalmers. Here I talk about the research I work with in the education sector. Our research at Chalmers has taken place in close collaboration with 200 schools and preschools, and has resulted in workable solutions to three difficult problems that many students, teachers and school leaders experience in everyday life.

I continuously help school leaders to work with these problems and solutions. If you are a school leader, just get in touch and we can have a shorter digital dialogue meeting. If you are a teacher, bring your school leader to such a meeting. Because without committed school leaders, it is difficult to drive school development.

Let's start with the students. Some students feel that they are attending the "school of meaninglessness", that school is not for them. Their severe lack of motivation for schoolwork is dangerous for themselves, but is also a major societal problem. This contributes to the fact that 100,000s of failed students find it difficult to establish themselves in working life. For these students, we at Chalmers have researched a pedagogy that engages them more deeply in school work. In more and more schools, students get to apply their knowledge in various attempts to create value for real recipients outside the classroom or school. The working method is called value-creating learning and is described in detail in a book I wrote called "The value-creating student" ("Den värdeskapande eleven" in Swedish, see translation on my blog www.vcplist.com/book)

Do you have students at your school who struggle with school fatigue? Then maybe this solution could be something for you. It is a popular pedagogy that is used by thousands of teachers around the world.

Next we come to the teachers. Some teachers feel that they work in the "puppet school", they do not feel that they have control over their own work. Instead, it is others who pull the strings. From above, upcoming trends, directives, lifts, systems, regulations and further training govern their professional lives in detail. For these teachers, we at Chalmers have researched a scientific method that allows them to regain ownership of the teaching profession. The method is called value-creating science, or the VV method, and is described in the book "The scientific teacher" ("Den vetenskapande läraren" in Swedish, see translation on my blog www.vcplist.com/das). The method is adapted to allow teachers to manage the choice of development focus, pedagogical design, data collection and analysis of the effects of various interventions in teaching in a time-efficient manner.

Do you have teachers at your school who do not feel strong ownership in the development work? Then maybe this solution could be something for you. It is a popular method that is used in 200 schools and preschools, as well as by the National Board of Education.

Last but not least the school leaders. Some school leaders feel that they are working in the "foamy-eyed school". Surveys, statistics and dialogues are not enough to get them to see what is happening in their own operations with the analytical depth they would like. The School Inspectorate has identified weak analytical skills as a main cause of various problems in the improvement work. In many cases, the links between the current situation, underlying causes and necessary interventions are not sufficiently visible. For these school leaders, we at Chalmers have researched a new type of digital IT support that helps school leaders manage, lead and support school development in their own unit. The tool collects all school development in one place, enables scientific collection of reflections on effects, and thereby makes visible what makes a difference for children and students. It has become Sweden's most popular IT support for school development, and is being built by a spin-off company from Chalmers. Read more at www.loopme.se/sv/skolutveckling.

Do you have challenges in the analysis work at your school? Then maybe this solution could be something for you. It is a popular analysis tool with 40,000 users in Sweden and many other countries.

Thank you for reading about our research, and welcome to contact me.