Students leading parent teacher interviews

Computers Now

By Computers Now
Community contribution / May 28, 2015

Doing away with scantily attended parent-teacher interviews, one South Australian school is getting students themselves to step up and share their own academic feedback via a dynamic series of ‘student-led conferences’.

Wendy House, principal of Pasadena High School, says the switched-up conference sessions have been kicking all manner of educational goals ...

This story appeared in the June 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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