Elementary Education Model

In today’s economy, schools need to operate and improve learning outcomes with less money. School leaders must evaluate resource use and eradicate inefficient spending to free up resources. Traditionally, money and how it’s spent is the primary resource that school district’s evaluate. Money is not the only element that dictates student outcomes. Student demographics, the development of quality instruction, and the depth and intensity of the curriculum are other important factors (Rickman, 2015). More importantly, school systems must examine how that money gets allocated toward people and the productive use of time. The most important role of a school leader is the ability to evaluate these areas to determine their contribution to the …show more content…
In Georgia, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce has recommended to reform the process of funding and Governor Deal is encouraging the state to do so (Rickman, 2015). Meanwhile, it would be possible for schools to incorporate the fore mentioned strategies to varying degrees. Initially, schools must have established a vision or instructional model. To address the vision, selectively pair teachers so they may learn from each other thus increasing their teaching quality. Utilizing the co-teaching model in which special education teachers and other support staff push into selected classrooms in order to foster small-group instruction thus reducing the student to teacher ratio in core areas. Since more teachers will be in the classroom, increase class sizes in order to reallocate the points to hire more instructional coaches who would be available to help increase the quality of instruction. In a typical elementary school, it is possible to utilize block scheduling if schools alter the rotation schedule for the specials or elective classes. Even if the schedule change would take place one or two days a week, that would provide a greater amount of time for collaborative planning or professional development. Schools could easily implement class looping as well as the family model where paired teachers share each other’s students. Many of the new classrooms were built using collapsible partitions between the rooms. With those removed, utilization of the family model is possible. Within the curriculum, districts encourage and apply a cross-curricular integration of subjects. It is not out of the scope of possibility to incorporate many of the strategies recommended. The challenge is for leaders to have the wisdom and the understanding to make the most effective changes specific to the vision of the school that would have the