Comprehensive school

Strategic school planning ‘The school development planning consists of a vision, mission, budget, staff and the curriculum’ (Booyse and Du Plessis, 2014:70). The schools management team and its subsidiaries (teachers, governing body etc) takes into consideration what the focus of the school year should be on in a particular phase when developing the curriculum. This is dependent on a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. Good work ethic of students, lack of proper…

expanding their influence to encompass the education system. With people that don’t know what they are talking about in positions of power, the education system is slowly crumbling, as the needs of the school and the needs of the students grow ever farther from the needs of the corporations. Schools want to provide for their students, students want to actually learn material, but the corporations want to create an education system that is better at making workers, better at finding future…

programs in all levels of education, programs that assist in the search for a job and housing, and also programs that allow individuals with disabilities to become involved in organizations and the community. During the 2011-2012 school year, about 12.9 percent of school aged children were enrolled in special education services (website in email). As a student with a disability, educational rights of the student are protected in the United States by several federal and state laws. There are two…

exists a massive dichotomy in the most effective way to employ the immense social program. It seems as if experts have divided themselves into two camps of thought surrounding the underlying structure of education. On one side exist those who see school as a chance to early distinguish students in order to individualize the learning experience. In this faction, an idealized meritocracy emerges from signaling manifested in test scores and rather arbitrary judgments of intelligence. The benefits…

States education system is a topic of debate that primarily exists because of its comparison to countries with outstanding educational performance, such as China and Finland. With the U.S. ranked as average when being compared to these countries, many schools and the parents of students agree there is a much needed reform. Thankfully, tests such as the Programme for International Student Assessment allows countries to test their students to determine where their country lacks most in their…

to education, inclusive education is enabling all children to learn and participate effectively within school systems. It means that students with special needs are provided with specialized education in age-appropriate regular classes according to their special educational needs (Forman, 2002). Inclusive education is all about welcoming all children, without discrimination into regular schools. It does not set apart children who have different talents, abilities or needs. It is the process of…

to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this system requires that schools be given yearly-standardized exams to monitor the progress of the students. These tests are meant to show if students meet the adequate yearly progress goals. If schools fail to meet these requirements for five consecutive years it is then restructured…

Dimensions of Diversity This is an image of a school parking lot.The paraplegic parking within this vicinity is highly visible, and reveals a status of inclusiveness for the needs of physically disable students within this community, and its education facility. This image also reflects the progressive initiatives entering our Education system today, in relation to catering for the diverse needs of disabled students. The New Zealand Government (1989) Education Act of 1989 has left an…

One of the benefits of teaching isn’t really the pay, but the fact that we have a steady salary. A writer for jobmonkey.com stated in their article titled, “The Good and Bad of Being a School Teacher.” That, “While the pay is not six figures, teachers do earn a steady income. With yearly increases, contracted raises, and increases from furthered education, a teacher’s salary continually climbs. Not to mention, it is rewarding to receive paychecks all summer long while on vacation. In addition to…

Communication Technologies? The key challenges facing educational leaders are contextually based, but there will be common themes that appear across the educational landscape. The context in which I work is that of a low socio-economic status comprehensive secondary school of approximately 950 students and 80 teachers in the Lake Macquarie area. The challenges that are identified and analysed may be specific to this setting, but they will not be unique. There is great complexity in the area of…