What Characteristics Distinguish Successful
Schools? (3.7)
What makes a successful school? Students
should achieve at a high level, and complete requirements for graduation.
Schools should achieve results that surpass those expected from comparable
schools. Successful schools improve.
The characteristics of a successful
school.
- Strong Leadership
- High expectations.Teachers have high expectations of their student's
achievements.
- Emphasis on basic skills.A strong emphasis on reading, writing and math
computation.
- Orderly school environment.Discipline problems are at a minimum. Frequent,
systematic evaluation of student learning.Learning is monitored, if
difficulties arise, remediation is provided.
- Sense of purpose.everyone has a strong sense of purpose.
- Collegiality and a sense of community.the staff at successful schools work
well together.
Strategies for making schools more
effective.
- Focus on student learning. All students are expected to achieve academic
excellence.
- There is an emphasis on authentic pedagogy. Students are expected to think
and apply
academic learning to realistic problems.There is a greater school
organizational capacity. Schools
strive for continuous improvement through
professional collaboration.
- There is greater external support; the school receives outside support.
Activity 1 (don't forget to label this activity 1, modular
3.7)
Go to http://firn.edu search "effective schools". Use the form "Rating Our School" provided in
this section, and rate your school. Use at least three resources and list
them on the form. You can use teachers, security, administration,
secretaries, and any school board member. You can also use our county web
site,http://browardschools.com . Tell me wht grade you gave our school! Don't forget to use the
information provided in this section! |
Rating Our School
Characteristics of a good
school
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| Strong Leadership |
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| Focus on student learning |
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Calculate the percent by taking total points earned over total possible
points, and set up a proportion with what we want to know over 100.
Total
earned = (total points earned)/(110) X (?%)/(100)
List three
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