In Nossal High School on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, students help interview new teachers before they are hired. A student selection panel assesses the potential teacher candidates and the decision is made collaboratively: when a concensus is reached, the principle then hires the successful candidate.
The pupils of the interview panel go through a training programme to make sure they assess teachers in a professional, confidential and fair way. The school principal sees it as a way to empower his students and to provide them with a different and important perspective on who will educate them. But not everyone agrees with this new approach of student empowerment. Watch to find out more!
More about student empowerment? Watch this example from Portugal, where students grade teachers: https://youtu.be/IXwdAqwR0U8 and this UK school, where free choice and democracy define the curriculum: https://youtu.be/ERQKi9fBRnw
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