What Make A School, A Good School
Found an article in the net from the website teachthought.com written by Terry Heick, Founder and director of Teach Thought. I am sharing the summary of his ideas of what are the characteristics of a good school. There are others whom have written on this topic. Let's look at this first. Of course Mr Terry's ideas are based on the culture, environment and the education system of his country but we can look at it and adopt and adapt what is suitable to our culture and education system. Let's look at some of the recommendations made by him. A good school improves the community it is in. A good adapts quickly to social changes. A good school has students who get along with and support one another towards a common goal which is known by them. A good school produce students that read and write because they want to. A good school admits its failures and limitations while working together with a 'global community' to grow. A good school has diverse and compelling measures