In order for our school to be effective and be able to enhance student achievement, it is important that we continually examine our practices, including the factors relative to the teachers, students, and the school. Thus, I asked three colleagues to complete Robert Marzano’s Snapshot Survey of School Effectiveness Factors, along with completing it myself. For each item listed under each key factor, the teachers had to respond to a set of three questions. Question 1 asked: To what extent do we engage in this behavior or address this issue? Question 2 asked: How much will a change in our practices on this item increase the academic achievement of our students? Finally, Question 3 asked: How much effort will it take to significantly change our
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Table 1 depicts the responses from the teacher assessment surveys for the top three factors with the highest average ratings for Question 1. At face value, these results indicate that the school does a very good job in these three areas, that changing our practices in these areas would have very little effect on increasing students’ academic achievement, but that it would also take very little effort to significantly change our practices regarding these issues. Therefore, these are areas we are strong in, and thus do not need to spend our valuable time and effort improving on …show more content…
They tell us that the school minimally engages in or ineffectively addresses these issues, that changing our current practices in these areas would increase our students’ academic achievement, and that it would not take an extraordinary amount of effort to significantly change our current practices regarding these issues. Based on the data I gathered from the teacher assessments, I feel that our school would do best in focusing our attention on encouraging and creating more opportunities for parental and community involvement in our school. More parental involvement opportunities need to be created within the school day as well, and not just offered after school in the evenings as the few that we currently have are. The results from the teacher surveys show that the lack of parental involvement is perceived to be the school’s biggest weakness, that improving parental and community involvement is perceived to significantly and positively impact the students’ academic achievement, and that making the needed changes in regards to this will not require a prohibitive amount of effort. To further back my recommendation up, research shows that extensive parental involvement in schools leads to higher student achievement, higher student grades and test scores, improved attendance, more positive student attitudes and behavior, completion of homework more consistently, and higher graduation
Table 1 depicts the responses from the teacher assessment surveys for the top three factors with the highest average ratings for Question 1. At face value, these results indicate that the school does a very good job in these three areas, that changing our practices in these areas would have very little effect on increasing students’ academic achievement, but that it would also take very little effort to significantly change our practices regarding these issues. Therefore, these are areas we are strong in, and thus do not need to spend our valuable time and effort improving on …show more content…
They tell us that the school minimally engages in or ineffectively addresses these issues, that changing our current practices in these areas would increase our students’ academic achievement, and that it would not take an extraordinary amount of effort to significantly change our current practices regarding these issues. Based on the data I gathered from the teacher assessments, I feel that our school would do best in focusing our attention on encouraging and creating more opportunities for parental and community involvement in our school. More parental involvement opportunities need to be created within the school day as well, and not just offered after school in the evenings as the few that we currently have are. The results from the teacher surveys show that the lack of parental involvement is perceived to be the school’s biggest weakness, that improving parental and community involvement is perceived to significantly and positively impact the students’ academic achievement, and that making the needed changes in regards to this will not require a prohibitive amount of effort. To further back my recommendation up, research shows that extensive parental involvement in schools leads to higher student achievement, higher student grades and test scores, improved attendance, more positive student attitudes and behavior, completion of homework more consistently, and higher graduation