ESHA’s quality cards series HEADstart aims to help school heads with useful professional tips on how to develop and become better leaders of their teams.
This Headstart Stimulating teachers to conduct small scale experiments for school development addresses suggestions for the following practical questions:
• How do I ensure that teachers’ experiments contribute to school development?
• How do I ensure the meaningful participation of teachers in conducting small scale experiments?
• How do I use our teachers’ talents, their experiences and beliefs, knowledge and skills for conducting small scale experiments?
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How to use this Best Practice
The headstart addresses the questions of why it is important to work with small scale experiments, what is needed to work with small scale experiments and 3 steps to be taken for conducting an experimental design:
Step 1: Choose a theme and find out who wants to set up an experimental design
Step 2: Set the frame of references
Step 3: monitor progress and evaluate
Learning Outcomes
Leadership LO B: Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote Sustainability Citizenship within their schools and communities
Leadership LO F: Through communities of practice, build capacity as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.