
Intended End User: School Leader
Age Group: Lower Primary; Upper Primary; Lower Secondary; Upper Secondary
Themes and Topics: Collective Action, School Leadership
Duration: Ongoing.
Type of Resource: Guidelines & Notes, Reference Document
Keywords: Experiments, School Development, School Heads
Languages: English
Description
You can stimulate teachers using the evidence from research to design and perform small scale experiments. If teachers get the opportunity to discover what is working in their own situation and are also invited to figure out why it works, it can become part of their professional knowledge and instructional repertoire and therefore it leads to sustainable educational improvement.
Teachers can learn by experimenting, especially if they do this together. This resource is designed to support School Leaders in harnessing the professional experience, inquisition and research skills of the school teachers to help support sustainable educational improvement.
How to use this resource
This HEADstart resource addresses the questions of ‘why it is important to work with small scale experiments?’, ‘what is needed to work with small-scale experiments?’ and provides three 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
The resources
Stimulating teachers to conduct small scale experiments for school development (PDF):
Additional resources from the ESHA HEADstart series are available on the HEADstart – Guidelines for School Leaders webpage.
Learning Outcomes (Leadership)
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote Sustainability Citizenship within their schools and communities.
- Through workshop activities and communities of practice, build capacity as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.
Green Competencies
- Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Critical Thinking
- Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Exploratory Thinking
Creative Commons

This resource was created by ESHA and is to be used for non-commercial purposes. No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.
SDGs
