How well is your school student management system (SMS) being used, by whom, and to do what? Principal and teacher responses to questions about this in the 2012 National Survey of Secondary Schools suggest this could be a fruitful area for schools to self-review.
Student-centred approaches to learning are gaining increasing national and international attention. For many teachers, more democratic teaching designs require a shift in thinking and practice. This article looks at how teachers unfamiliar with these approaches might transition from a position of power to empowerment by exploring small, manageable changes in practice. It draws on a 9-month participatory action-based research project on student-centred curriculum integration and the teaching practice of the author.
