Teacher autonomy is being crushed by mandated "best practice"

By Gordon Cairns
Community contribution / July 5, 2019

The guest speaker paces the front of the assembly hall like an old school evangelist, passionately preaching the word of conformity.

With missionary zeal, she is here to inspire us to iron out the idiosyncrasies in our teaching so that we ...

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Teacher autonomy is being crushed by mandated "best practice"

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