Victorian students are raising concerns following the defunding of Teach the Teacher, warning it removes a key structured pathway for embedding student voice into teaching and 
learning.

Teach the Teacher is a student-led, whole-school model that supports students and teachers to work in partnership enabling students to shape teaching practice through data-informed 
professional learning and collaborative dialogue.

This decision creates a system-level gap in how student perspectives are consistently embedded across schools. 

“Teach the Teacher provided a structured, supported way for student voice to influence teaching practice. Without it, we risk student input becoming inconsistent and dependent on 
individual schools,” says VicSRC CEO Julia Baron. 

Without this model, opportunities for students to shape teaching and learning are more likely to become:

• Inconsistent across schools 

• Dependent on individual teachers or leadership 

• Less connected to system-wide improvement 
   

VicSRC says it will continue to work with students and schools to create opportunities for student voice and emphasise that responsive work cannot fully replace embedded 
structures.

Students have echoed that when formal pathways are removed, there are gaps and those gaps affect how consistently students are heard across the system.