VicSRC: Empowering students across Victoria

Teach the Teacher

Designed by students, the Teach the Teacher program is a whole school student-led framework to encourage and enable student voice, agency and leadership delivered by VicSRC. An internationally recognised, education innovation, Teach the Teacher aims to create an inclusive school culture where everyone’s voices are equally heard. Teach the Teacher supports students to drive change at school by leading collaborative conversations with teachers, school leadership and staff.

Teach the Teacher is a yearlong program which includes multiple workshops, resources and regular support from VicSRC to embed student voice practices in your school leading to long term cultural change.

Contact [email protected] to start your Teach the Teacher journey!

Whole school approach to student voice

Formal acknowledgement of professional development activity for educators

Yearlong student led program

Aligned to Victorian curriculum F-10

Top 100 global education innovation

Develop critical and creative thinking

The Framework for Improving Student Outcomes is a key part of the Education State in Schools agenda and, through its ‘Empowering students and building school pride’ initiative, encourages schools to make student voice a priority for full and active participation in school life.

- The Hon James Merlino MP, Deputy Premier, Minister for Education in the foreword to VicSRC’s Student Voice and the Education State -

How does Teach the Teacher work?

Students lead collaborative conversations with their school staff about how students and educators can work together to address a school issue.

The program supports students at your school to:

Choose and research an issue, including gathering and analysing data

Plan and deliver a professional learning session for educators  
Create a plan of collaborative action to address the chosen issue
Share actions, learnings and impact with the whole school community
Embed this process of student-teacher collaboration into the school

Students benefit from taking part in Teach the Teacher in a variety of ways. Many gain confidence to speak up more in a classroom and wider school setting, most discover a greater empathy towards teachers, and all have a heightened awareness of how they and their classmates are being taught.

- Zack Pretlove, SRC Advisor, Melbourne Girls’ College -

Teach the Teacher is the single most transformative flipping of pedagogy I’ve seen in 40 years of education.

- Patricia Cowling, Education Consultant -

I have learnt so much about the hardships of teachers, the challenges they face, and the art of teaching. I have also learnt so much about the behind-the-scenes work of educators, the research behind all the learning and teaching techniques implemented and the complex field of education research

– Teach the Teacher student participant -

Teach the Teacher is the single most transformative flipping of pedagogy I’ve seen in 40 years of education.

- Patricia Cowling, Education Consultant -

Contact us

Our Community House
552 Victoria Street,
North Melbourne
VICTORIA, 3051

General inquiries

[email protected]
0411 679 050

Media inquiries

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0488 700 138