Why a former principal is urging schools to move away from combined classrooms

A former principal has detailed his experience as a principal at a school with combined classrooms in an open-plan classroom as a failure.

Former principal and founder and chief executive officer of Real Schools, Adam Voigt, says he was given the opportunity to be the first principal at a new school which offered combined classrooms.

“I thought, ‘Yeah, there’s an opportunity to see if this could work,'” he told Tony Moclair.

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He also says schools should return to single classrooms.

“What I don’t think we want to do is go back to a kind of authoritarian mode of teaching,” he said.

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