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Teachers need autonomy

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There is enormous internal power within the teaching profession. To navigate the challenges, teachers need autonomy. Micromanaged and overregulated teachers cannot give their best selves to the job. Over-governing stifles innovation.

The system can do better with more faith in the innovative power of the teaching profession. One factor contributing to a school’s academic prosperity is autonomy.

Autonomy makes a school to be inward looking when confronted with challenges. When desperation sets in, the system relies on the improvisation of its teaching force.

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Teachers need autonomy

There is enormous internal power within the teaching profession. To navigate the challenges, teachers need autonomy. Micromanaged and overregulated teachers cannot give their best selves to the job. Over-governing stifles innovation.